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

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

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. J. Frank Dobie:

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

2. Max Lerner:

   The Seven Deadly Sins of the Press: Concentrated Power of the Big Press. Passing of competition and the coming of monopoly. Governmental control of the press. Timidity, especially in the face of group and corporate pressures. Big Business mentality. Clannishness among the newspaper publishers that has prevented them from criticizing each other. Social blindness.

3. Christian Debreuil:

   I hope you can take them out of this sort of isolation syndrome, of blindness they are still in denial, contempt, and minimize issues.

4. Celine Gounder:

   Measles is also pneumonia, brain infection, it's the leading cause of childhood blindness in the world, if you want to do something natural, vaccination is far more natural than if your child ends up on a ventilator or needing antibiotics or if they end up with a brain infection so if you are trying to balance what's the most natural way to take care of your child, I would say measles vaccine is pretty high up there.

5. Jonathan Turley:

   The Court’s argument [Monday] showed that it is high time to return to the constitutional norm of color blindness.