blindness

English

Etymology

From Middle English blindnes, from Old English blindnysse; morphologically as if blind +‎ -ness.

Pronunciation

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Noun

Wikipedia blindness (usually uncountable; plural blindnesses)

1. The condition of being blind; unable to see.
2. (figuratively) Want of intellectual or moral discernment; mental darkness; ignorance, heedlessness.
3. (obsolete) concealment

Synonyms

• ablepsy (rare)
• cecity
• sightlessness

Derived terms

• colour blindness, color blindness
• stereoblindness

Translations

condition of being blind

• Armenian: կուրություն (hy) (kurut’yun)
• Asturian: ceguera (ast) f
• Bengali: অন্ধত্ব (bn)
• Bulgarian: слепота (bg) (slepota) f
• Catalan: ceguesa (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 盲目性 (cmn) (mángmùxìng)

• Czech: slepota (cs) f
• Dutch: blindheid (nl) f
• Esperanto: blindeco (eo)
• Estonian: pimedus (et)
• Finnish: sokeus (fi)
• French: cécité (fr) f
• Galician: cegueira (gl) f
• German: Blindheit (de) f
• Greek: τύφλωση (el) (týflosi) f, τυφλότητα (el) (tyflótita) f
• Hebrew: עיוורון (he) (yvaron) m
• Hungarian: vakság (hu)
• Italian: cecità (it) f

• Japanese: 盲目 (ja) (もうもく, mōmoku)
• Korean: 장님 (ko) (jangnim)
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji: korî (ku) f, korahî (ku) f

  Sorani کوێری (ku) (kwêrî)

• Persian: نابینایی (fa) (nâbinâyi)
• Polish: ślepota (pl) f
• Portuguese: cegueira (pt) f
• Russian: слепота (ru) (slepotá) f
• Scottish Gaelic: doille (gd) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: слепило (sh) n / сљепило (sh) n, слепоћа (sh) f / сљепоћа (sh) f

  Roman: slepilo (sh) n / sljepilo (sh) n, slepoća (sh) f / sljepoća (sh) f

• Slovene: slepota (sl)
• Spanish: ceguera (es) f
• Swedish: blindhet (sv) c
• Telugu: అంధత్వము (te) (andhatvam), గుడ్డితనం (te) (guDDitanam)
• Turkish: körlük (tr)

See also

• anosmia
• deafness

References

• blindness in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• “blindness” in OED Online, Oxford University Press, 1989.