| NOUN | state | blindness, sightlessness, cecity | the state of being blind or lacking sight |
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| Sounds | blay'ndnahs; blay'nnahs | |
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| Rhymes | abacus ... zealous: 1164 rhymes with ahs... | |
| Meaning | The state of being blind or lacking sight. | |
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| Synonyms | sightlessness, cecity | |
| Narrower | anopia | sightlessness (especially because of a structural defect in or the absence of an eye) |
| eyelessness | blindness due to loss of the eyes | |
| figural blindness | inability to see shapes and contours | |
| legal blindness | Vision that is 20/200 or worse in both eyes (20/200 vision is the ability to see at 20 feet what a normal eye can see at 200 feet) | |
| snowblindness, snow-blindness | temporary blindness caused by exposure to sunlight reflected from snow or ice | |
| Broader | visual impairment, visual defect, vision defect, visual disorder | impairment of the sense of sight |
| Spanish | ceguedad, ceguera, invidencia, ofuscación | |
| Catalan | ceguera, ceguesa, ceguetat | |
| Adjectives | blind | unable to see |
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