blindness to
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5.7
- noun
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ceguera ante
- One can criticize him for his blindness to unforeseen circumstances, but the truth is the truth.
- blindness to your own
Those are moments when I have kind of avoided exposing my blindness to people in public.
- Those are moments when I have kind of avoided exposing my blindness to people in public.
Examples
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The big-city person's blindness to the basic needs of neighbors has become part of the lore of mid-America.
Academic text (1994) -
In the years leading up to the genocide, donor agencies adopted what Peter Uvin describes as a policy of "voluntary blindness" to the politics of injustice, exclusion, and prejudice in Rwanda.
Academic text (2006) -
The same blindness to the forces of Satan exists in most churches and Christian households.
Blog text (13) -
Sadly, this blindness to irony does not seem new to me.
Blog text (3) -
Disengagement and willful blindness to a reality you create and support is quite another.
Blog text (25) -
Above all, the blindness to the obvious fact that their hatred has roots in our behavior since 9/11.
Blog text (27) -
Ideological bias may cause blindness to or misunderstandings of another culture's common sense.
Academic text (1991) -
Frankly, Jeanne, your prejudice and blindness to privilege are showing.
Blog text (14) -
The ideology of white supremacy was both a cause of many people's blindness to the wickedness of slavery and an effect of the exploitation and degradation of its victims.
Academic text (2008) -
His blindness to the reality of climate change has serious consequences for future generations.
Synonyms
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3.9
Not knowing about something or how it works
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5.3
An area a person does not notice or understand that causes bad decisions
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4.6
Not noticing things around you
5
4.2
Not knowing what to do or how something works
4
6.9
A feeling of not being able to understand something
2
7.4
Not noticing things happening around you
2
5.4
Not knowing or noticing something
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8.1
Being slow to understand or notice things
Not being aware of a fact or change
Not knowing about something
Being unaware of something
A lack of understanding of instructions or ideas
Not being able to understand or accept some important facts
A lack of awareness of what is happening
A state of not knowing or understanding
A state of not knowing or understanding things
A lack of noticing or understanding other people's feelings and needs
Antonyms
How Unaware
Surface Forms
Morphology
blindness + to
The noun 'blindness' (inability to see) combined with the preposition 'to' yields a straightforward metaphorical extension meaning 'inability or failure to perceive/acknowledge X.' This mapping from literal lack of sight to lack of awareness is a common, predictable pattern cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents would very likely infer the intended meaning.
Etymology
Blindness to comes from the simple image of someone with blindness who cannot see something right in front of them. So if someone has blindness to an issue, they do not notice it and are 'not aware' of it.