Synonyms for blindness
blind·ness

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1. blindnessnoun

   Synonyms:
   ablepsy, cecity, sightlessness

2. blindnessnoun

   The condition of being blind; unable to see.

   Synonyms:
   ablepsy, sightlessness, cecity

3. blindnessnoun

   Want of intellectual or moral discernment; mental darkness; ignorance, heedlessness.

   Synonyms:
   ablepsy, cecity, sightlessness

4. blindnessnoun

   concealment

   Synonyms:
   ablepsy, sightlessness, cecity

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1. blindness, sightlessness, cecitynoun

   the state of being blind or lacking sight

   Synonyms:
   cecity, sightlessness

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1. blindnessnoun

   Synonyms:
   sightlessness, anopsia, purblindness, amaurosis

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1. List of paraphrases for "blindness":

   blinding, self-delusion, self-deception

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1. Ken Cuccinellisaid:

   Later that night, Kelly was arrested by police and taken to jail. Police officers have frequently encountered dangerous lasers during protests across the country. ADepartment of Homeland Security report on the Portland protests mentions lasers being targeted at police or aircraft at least eight times. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Acting Deputy Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Ken Cuccinellisaid that multiple federal officers weretemporarily blinded by lasers during Portland protests. Weve had a number of officers who have days-long blindness. So far theyve all kind of come back, if you will, you also get whats called flash blindness, think of it as the old Kodak cameras where youd get that blue spot and you cant quite see your entire field of vision for a period of time.

2. Christopher Quinn:

   When you look directly at the sun, the intensity of the light and the focus of the light is so great on the retina that it can cook it, if the exposure is great enough, that can and will lead to permanent reduction in vision and even blindness.

3. Helen Keller:

   My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.

4. Randy Pearce:

   Don’t get me wrong, I have tough days and there are things that I try to do that frustrate me that are a lot harder because of my blindness.

5. J. Frank Dobie:

   Putting on the spectacles of science in expectation of finding an answer to everything looked at signifies inner blindness.