blindness

The condition of being unable to see.

• The disease can cause blindness.
• She uses a guide dog because of her blindness.
• Doctors hope to prevent blindness with early treatment.

Common phrases: total blindness, partial blindness, cause blindness

A failure to notice or understand something important.

• Her blindness to the problem surprised me.
• Their blindness to injustice allowed it to continue.
• Willful blindness can lead to terrible decisions.

How to use it: blindness to something (His blindness to the danger worried us.)

Similar words: unawareness

Opposites: awareness

Common phrases: blindness to something, willful blindness, moral blindness