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blindness
has definitions from the fields of medicine,ophthalmology
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[ noun ] (medicine,ophthalmology) lack of sight
Synonyms Used in print (William G. Pollard, Physicist and Christian....)We marvel at their blindness for not seeing this . (William S. Haymond, "Is Distance an Original...)Psychical blindness is a condition in which there is a total absence of visual memory-images , a condition in which , for_example , one is unable to remember something just seen or to conjure_up a memory-picture of the visible appearance of a well-known friend in his absence . It seems clear , when one takes into consideration the exceedingly defective eyesight of the patient ( we shall describe it in_detail in_connection_with our second question , the one concerning the psychical blindness of the patient ) , that he had to rely_on his sense_of_touch much more_than the usual portfolio maker and that consequently that faculty was most probably more sensitive to shape and size than that of a person with normal vision . In what ways , then , did the patient 's psychical blindness manifest itself ? (Arthur Miller, "The Prophecy," in The Best...)There was an air of blindness in her gray eyes , the startled horse look that ultimately comes to some women who are_born at the end of an ancestral line long_since divorced from money-making and which , besides , has kept its estate intact . Related terms visual_impairment figural_blindness eyelessness snowblindness anopia |
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