English noun: blindness | |||
1. | blindness (state) the state of being blind or lacking sight | ||
Synonyms | cecity, sightlessness | ||
Broader (hypernym) | vision defect, visual defect, visual disorder, visual impairment | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | anopia, eyelessness, figural blindness, legal blindness, snow-blindness, snowblindness | ||