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発音

• IPA: /ˈblaɪndnəs/
• ハイフネーション: blind‧ness
• 韻: -aɪndnəs

名詞

blindness (usually uncountable, plural blindnesses)

1. The condition of being blind; unable to see.
   • 1989 February 5, Judy Harris, “Untitled image caption”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 29, page 3:

     DHPG […] is effective in fighting Cytomegalovirus (CMV), a common virus which, for PWAs, can cause CMV retinitis — a condition which can lead to blindness within weeks.

2. (figuratively) Want of intellectual or moral discernment; mental darkness; ignorance, heedlessness.
   • 1976, Frank Herbert, Children of Dune:

     A tormenting hunger shuddered through her and she wished she could put aside the power. Oh, to be as others were — blind in that safest of all blindnesses, living only the hypnoidal half-life into which birth-shock precipitated most humans.

3. (obsolete) concealment

同意語

• ablepsy (rare)
• blindhood (rare)
• cecity
• sightlessness

等位語

• ageusia
• anosmia
• deafness

派生語

参照

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “blindness”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “blindness”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.