Blindness is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Blindness in a sentence
Blindness meaning
- The condition of being blind; unable to see.
- Want of intellectual or moral discernment; mental darkness; ignorance, heedlessness.
- concealment
Synonyms of Blindness
Using Blindness
- The main meaning on this page is: The condition of being blind; unable to see. | Want of intellectual or moral discernment; mental darkness; ignorance, heedlessness. | concealment
- Useful related words include: sightlessness, cecity, visual impairment, visual defect.
- In the example corpus, blindness often appears in combinations such as: blindness and, of blindness, color blindness.
Context around Blindness
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 11 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Blindness
- In this selection, "blindness" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, color, sea, limbs, involving, returns and low stand out and add context to how "blindness" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include about color blindness or race and and cause blindness if splashed. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "blindness" sits close to words such as andreas, audits and bcci, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with blindness
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
How Long Can The Willing Blindness Continue? (7 words)
His window of perception sees only gray, almost to a point of blindness. (13 words)
As the rods die off, the ailment begins to affect the cones, leading to blindness. (15 words)
I have treated too many people with diabetes for whom dialysis, limb amputations, and/or blindness could have been prevented if they had just been able to see a medical provider sooner. (32 words)
In response to the criticism, Benedict altered the Good Friday liturgy to drop a reference to the “blindness” of the Jews, but he maintained language praying for Jews to convert to Christianity. (32 words)
However, it can result in what we call 'functional' blindness - whereby the eyesight muscles are in a state of uncontrollable spasms and the person is unable to open their eyes. (30 words)
How Long Can The Willing Blindness Continue? (7 words)
Example sentences (20)
Color blindness involving the inactivation of the short-wavelength sensitive cone system (whose absorption spectrum peaks in the bluish-violet) is called tritanopia or, loosely, blue–yellow color blindness.
A charity walk raising money for those affected by sight loss and blindness returns to the Isle of Wight today (Sunday).
Admiral Hari Kumar cites examples of sea blindness which is an endemic disease since people live mostly on land and not on the sea.
And going forward, it is useful, in conversing about color-blindness or race-consciousness, to clarify whether one means in personal interactions, public policy, or both.
As the rods die off, the ailment begins to affect the cones, leading to blindness.
Attie said diabetes is a unique disease because it has various consequences including kidney disease, nerve damage and blindness and is even linked to dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.
By doing so, individuals with disabilities, including blindness, low vision, and dyslexia, can navigate digital documents more easily.
Dave has previously spoken about health struggles, including discovering he had glaucoma – an eye condition that can lead to blindness.
Diabetic retinopathy may occur in people with diabetes and causes damage to the blood vessels in the retina, leading to blindness in some cases.
Disease of the muscles, bones or joints is also listed, alongside trauma to limbs, blindness, deafness, heart disease and chest disease.
Health officials are investigating an outbreak of drug-resistant bacteria tied to artificial tear drops that has led to hospitalizations, blindness and one death.
His window of perception sees only gray, almost to a point of blindness.
However, it can result in what we call 'functional' blindness - whereby the eyesight muscles are in a state of uncontrollable spasms and the person is unable to open their eyes.
How Long Can The Willing Blindness Continue?
I have treated too many people with diabetes for whom dialysis, limb amputations, and/or blindness could have been prevented if they had just been able to see a medical provider sooner.
In Australia, the most common causes of blindness and low vision are AMD, cataracts and glaucoma, according to Vision Australia.
In fact, diabetes is the primary cause of blindness in adults between the ages of 20 to 74.
In response to the criticism, Benedict altered the Good Friday liturgy to drop a reference to the “blindness” of the Jews, but he maintained language praying for Jews to convert to Christianity.
Intrigued, Mills began trawling through the annals of the British Library in order to uncover the story of blindness.
It can cause a strong irritant to the skin, eyes and mucous membranes and cause blindness if splashed into the eyes.
Common combinations with blindness
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- blindness and 22×
- of blindness 17×
- color blindness 15×
- blindness in 12×
- blindness to 11×
- cause blindness 10×
- willful blindness 10×
- blindness or 9×
- blindness is 8×
- and blindness 8×