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SIGHTLESSNESS

Dictionary entry overview: What does sightlessness mean?

• SIGHTLESSNESS (noun)
The noun SIGHTLESSNESS has 1 sense:

1. the state of being blind or lacking sight

Familiarity information: SIGHTLESSNESS used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• SIGHTLESSNESS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

The state of being blind or lacking sight

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

blindness; cecity; sightlessness

Hypernyms ("sightlessness" is a kind of...):

vision defect; visual defect; visual disorder; visual impairment (impairment of the sense of sight)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sightlessness"):

anopia (sightlessness (especially because of a structural defect in or the absence of an eye))

snow-blindness; snowblindness (temporary blindness caused by exposure to sunlight reflected from snow or ice)

eyelessness (blindness due to loss of the eyes)

figural blindness (inability to see shapes and contours)

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