blindfolding
blindfolding is the present participle and gerund of blindfold.
Meaning of blindfold
Verb
blindfold (third-person singular simple present blindfolds, present participle blindfolding, simple past and past participle blindfolded)
- To cover the eyes, in order to make someone unable to see.
- Children need to be blindfolded before they hit the piñata.
- To obscure understanding or comprehension.
Noun
blindfolding (plural blindfoldings)
- The act of covering with a blindfold.
- Now Quine defines the affirmative stimulus meaning as “the class of all stimulations (hence evolving ocular irradiation patterns between properly timed blindfoldings) that would prompt his assent” (Quine 1960, p. 32); negative stimulus meanings are defined analogously.2007 November 29, Manfred Kupffer, “An Unintentional Defense of the Indeterminacy of Meaning?”, in Erkenntnis, volume 68, number 2, →DOI
Forms of blindfolding
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Questions about blindfolding
- What does blindfolding mean?
- Blindfolding means the act of covering with a blindfold.
- What is blindfolding the present participle and gerund of?
- Blindfolding is the present participle and gerund of blindfold.
- What part of speech is blindfolding?
- Blindfolding is a noun.
- What is the plural of blindfolding?
- The plural of blindfolding is blindfoldings.
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