blindness
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3.1
- noun
- /ˈblaɪndnəs/
- Did she ever tell you what caused her blindness?
- visual impairment and blindness
- low vision and blindness
- causes of blindness
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Watch on YouTubeWhat's the number one cause of vision loss and blindness amongst working age adults?
- What's the number one cause of vision loss and blindness amongst working age adults?
- It's just 'cause this is who I am separate from just my blindness.
- That would, for example, prevent lifelong blindness.
- And to Fast forward the story, that doctor saved and reversed my sister's blindness.
- God, I pray, I ask for right now tonight that you would heal my wife of her blindness.
- And they have really nasty side effects, kidney damage, liver damage, deafness and blindness.
- We could still do better, but it's still one of the leading causes of, of childhood blindness.
- Our sight and blindness are referred to what to the eye?
- Yeah, You have obviously people who have essentially limitation of blindness or deafness.
- He said that's a way harder than, you know, trying to cure blindness in some country because we get vulnerable.
Examples
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So to the people who say who fear blindness so much, what would you say to them?
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What's the number one cause of vision loss and blindness amongst working age adults?
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And what is important is it's a leading cause of blindness in in children.
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Only this spring, a woman begged me to try to heal her blindness of many years' standing.
Fiction book (1993) -
The number three most common cause of preventable blindness is cataracts.
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Meanwhile, a doctor friend has suggested that Gertrude's blindness might be cured by an operation.
Academic text (1990) -
Early diagnosis and proper treatment are necessary because this tumor can cause blindness and life-threatening complications.
Academic text (2008) -
Severe disability refers to conditions such as quadriplegia, severe depression, or blindness, which represent 2% of the world's population.
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It's where the vitreous shrinks and separates from the retina which impairs your vision and can lead to blindness.
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Diabetes is a leading cause of blindness among adults if not properly managed.
Synonyms
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4.1
A condition where a person can see poorly or not at all
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7.9
Not being able to see
Loss of the ability to see
Loss of sight because an eye is missing or badly damaged
Antonyms
Compounds
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6.1
The idea that race should not matter when treating people, often hiding real unfairness
- Specialized
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5.3
A disease caused by a tiny worm spread by black flies that makes skin very itchy and causes blindness
- Specialized
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4.0
Very poor sight that the law measures as 20/200 vision or a very small field of view
- Archaic
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9.8
Poor sight at night in people and animals often caused by lack of vitamin A
- Specialized
A condition that makes it hard to tell yellow and blue apart
How Blind
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word blindness comes from an old English word blind meaning 'unable to see' and the ending -ness which means 'state', as in happiness. So, blindness simply means 'the state of being unable to see'.