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• n  the state of being blind or lacking sight

• There's a name for Burman's condition: prosopagnosia or, more informally, face blindness.
• From now on, there would always be the memory of the fear she experienced during her experiment with blindness.
• I have partial blindness in one of my eyes, actually.

• sightlessness
• cecity

News & Articles

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• New dashboard devices distract drivers
  The greater the concentration required to perform a task, the more likely a driver is to develop "inattention blindness."
  June 14, 2013 - Everett Herald
• Revolutionary breakthrough in cataract surgery
  The leading cause of blindness in this country is cataracts, affecting 22 million people.
  June 13, 2013 - KGO-TV Bay Area
• Blindness no excuse for Canton man
  George Illingworth doesn’t let his blindness keep him from living.
  June 9, 2013 - The Canton Repository

Quotes

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• Barack Obama in Reuters
  And so when they adopt a posture of restraint, I understand their thinking. But I think there's a difference between restraint and willful blindness to consistent problems,he added.
• Fernando Meirelles in FOXNews
  There are different kinds of blindness. There's 2 billion people that are starving in the world,Meirelles said in an interview Thursday, a day after the film's Cannes premiere. "This is happening. It doesn't need a catastrophe. It's...
• Ann Cryer in Independent
  I have encountered cases of blindness and deafness,Mrs Cryer added. "There was one poor girl who had to have an oxygen tank on her back and breathe from a hole in the front of her neck. The parents were warned they should not have any more...