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Blindness vs Sightless - What's the difference?

blindness | sightless |

As a noun blindness

is the condition of being blind; unable to see.

As a adjective sightless is

without sight; blind.

blindness

English

Noun

(wikipedia blindness) (en-noun)
  • The condition of being blind; unable to see.
  • (figuratively) Want of intellectual or moral discernment; mental darkness; ignorance, heedlessness.
  • (obsolete) concealment

    • Synonyms

    * ablepsy (rare) * cecity * sightlessness

    Derived terms

    * colour blindness, color blindness * snow blindness * stereoblindness

    See also

    * anosmia * deafness

    References

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    sightless

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Without sight; blind.

    • Derived terms

    *sightlessly *sightlessness