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blindnesses

blindnesses is the plural of blindness.

Meaning of blindness

Noun

blindness (usually uncountable, plural blindnesses)

  1. (usually) The condition of being blind; unable to see.
    • 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.1989 February 5, Judy Harris, “Untitled image caption”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 29, page 3
  2. (figuratively, usually) Want of intellectual or moral discernment; mental darkness; ignorance, heedlessness.
    • 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.1976, Frank Herbert, Children of Dune
  3. (obsolete, usually) concealment

Phrases with blindnesses

Questions about blindnesses

What is blindnesses the plural of?
Blindnesses is the plural of blindness.

Words near blindnesses in the dictionary

  1. blindman
  2. blindman's buff
  3. blindman's holiday
  4. blindmen
  5. blindness
  6. blindnesses
  7. blinds
  8. blinds with science
  9. blindside
  10. blindside flanker
  11. blindside flankers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: blindnesses (page history and authors); blindness (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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