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noun

blindness

CEFR B2

the state of being blind or lacking sight

In a sentence

Six example sentences with blindness, each labelled with its topic.

  • Cataract surgery reversed the blindness of a man who had not seen his grandchildren's faces in eleven years.

    Medicine

  • Braille invented his raised alphabet because blindness had shut him out of every book in his father's house.

    History

  • Screen readers let blindness stop being a barrier to a spreadsheet, provided the developer labelled every column.

    Technology

  • Milton composed his epic in blindness, dictating each morning's lines to whoever was on hand to write them down.

    Literature

  • Blindness never slowed the pianist, who learned every concerto by ear and memorized the orchestra's cues from recordings.

    Music

  • The accessibility law treats blindness as a reason for reasonable adjustments, so employers must provide screen readers on request.

    Law

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