sightlessness

7.9

Not being able to see

noun
/ˈsaɪt.ləs.nəs/

: ceguera

Looking up at the window again, there were the faces: the anti-, the proto-Karens, her own face thrown back at her replicated in a hundred near-guises. Yes, but no; part but not part; some trick not of sight but sightlessness; there were nothing but reflections now.

Examples

Living in sightlessness can be challenging, but many people learn to navigate the world without vision.
Nodding their heads in consensual sightlessness.

Fiction book (1998)
The sightlessness caused by the accident left him struggling to adjust to a new way of life.
After years of sightlessness, she adapted to her surroundings using her other senses.

Synonyms

blindness

vssightlessness

70 3.1

A condition in which a person cannot see because of injury, disease, or being born that way

refers to the same lack of vision without stressing cause

visual impairment

vssightlessness

1 4.1

A condition where a person can see poorly or not at all

denotes total lack of sight rather than reduced visual ability

cecity

vssightlessness

9.9

Loss of the ability to see

is the same condition expressed by the main term

anopia

vssightlessness

Specialized

9.9

Loss of sight because an eye is missing or badly damaged

is broader, covering loss of vision from any cause

eyelessness

vssightlessness

9.9

A condition of having no eyes, often from birth or injury

refers to lack of vision whether or not eyes are present

Antonyms

sight

538 1.0

The ability to see or an impressive thing you see

How Sighted

sightedness

3 7.2

sightlessness

7.9

Surface Forms

sightlessness singular

sightlessnesses plural

Morphology

sightlessness = sightless (transparent) = sight + less + ness

Formed from the clear adjective 'sightless' by adding the nominalizing suffix '-ness' to indicate the state of being without sight.

Etymology

Sightlessness comes from sight ('seeing') plus -less ('without') and -ness ('state'), just like in hopeless where -less means 'without'. So sightlessness is the 'state of being without sight', in other words being blind.