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  1. blindnessnoun

    Synonyms:
    ablepsy, cecity, sightlessness

  2. blindnessnoun

    The condition of being blind; unable to see.

    Synonyms:
    ablepsy, sightlessness, cecity

  3. blindnessnoun

    Want of intellectual or moral discernment; mental darkness; ignorance, heedlessness.

    Synonyms:
    ablepsy, cecity, sightlessness

  4. blindnessnoun

    concealment

    Synonyms:
    ablepsy, sightlessness, cecity

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. blindness, sightlessness, cecitynoun

    the state of being blind or lacking sight

    Synonyms:
    cecity, sightlessness

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  1. blindnessnoun

    Synonyms:
    sightlessness, anopsia, purblindness, amaurosis

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "blindness":

    blinding, self-delusion, self-deception

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  1. Celine Gounder:

    Measles is also pneumonia, brain infection, it's the leading cause of childhood blindness in the world, if you want to do something natural, vaccination is far more natural than if your child ends up on a ventilator or needing antibiotics or if they end up with a brain infection so if you are trying to balance what's the most natural way to take care of your child, I would say measles vaccine is pretty high up there.

  2. Jonathan Turley:

    The Court’s argument [Monday] showed that it is high time to return to the constitutional norm of color blindness.

  3. Ken Cuccinellisaid:

    Later that night, Kelly was arrested by police and taken to jail. Police officers have frequently encountered dangerous lasers during protests across the country. ADepartment of Homeland Security report on the Portland protests mentions lasers being targeted at police or aircraft at least eight times. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Acting Deputy Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Ken Cuccinellisaid that multiple federal officers weretemporarily blinded by lasers during Portland protests. Weve had a number of officers who have days-long blindness. So far theyve all kind of come back, if you will, you also get whats called flash blindness, think of it as the old Kodak cameras where youd get that blue spot and you cant quite see your entire field of vision for a period of time.

  4. Deshawn Yeldell:

    This world probably sees me as broken and a so-so worthless rejected lifeless tree in a lost wasteland, looked at as many-many hopelessness’s, In God’s eyes, I am; appeared as this golden tree of life, only the ones free from blindness can see my true reality. -MillYentei D.Y.

  5. Randy Pearce:

    Don’t get me wrong, I have tough days and there are things that I try to do that frustrate me that are a lot harder because of my blindness.


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