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scotomia

scotomia is the obsolete form of scotoma.

Meaning of scotoma

Noun

scotoma (plural scotomas or scotomata)

  1. An area of impaired or lost vision within a visual field otherwise in a good (or at least healthy) state.
    • Malcolm’s vision was now almost totally occupied by the shimmering dazzle of the scotoma.2019, Philip Pullman, The Secret Commonwealth, David Fickling Books (2020), page 373
    Synonyms:
    blind spot
  2. (figuratively) A weakness of the mind's perception, cognition, or world view, causing it to ignore some aspects of reality.
    • intellectual scotoma
    Synonyms:
    blind spot

Forms of scotomia

pluralscotomias

Origin of scotomia

By surface analysis, scot- + -omia.

Questions about scotomia

What is scotomia the obsolete form of?
Scotomia is the obsolete form of scotoma.

Words near scotomia in the dictionary

  1. scotomatous
  2. scotometer
  3. scotometers
  4. scotometric
  5. scotometry
  6. scotomia
  7. scotomias
  8. scotomies
  9. scotomization
  10. scotomizations
  11. scotomize

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scotomia (page history and authors); scotoma (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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