blindness

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The condition of being blind; unable to see. uncountable,usually
    — DHPG […] is effective in fighting Cytomegalovirus (CMV), a common virus which, for PWAs, can cause CMV retinitis — a condition which can lead to blindness within weeks.
  2. Want of intellectual or moral discernment; mental darkness; ignorance, heedlessness. figuratively,uncountable,usually
    — A tormenting hunger shuddered through her and she wished she could put aside the power. Oh, to be as others were — blind in that safest of all blindnesses, living only the hypnoidal half-life into which birth-shock precipitated most humans.
  3. concealment obsolete,uncountable,usually

词形变化

blindnesses plural

词源

From Middle English blyndnes, blyndnesse, from Old English blindnes (“blindness”), equivalent to blind + -ness.
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