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Definition of Sightlessness
1. Noun. The state of being blind or lacking sight.
Specialized synonyms: Legal Blindness, Anopia, Snow-blindness, Snowblindness, Eyelessness, Figural Blindness
Generic synonyms: Vision Defect, Visual Defect, Visual Disorder, Visual Impairment
Derivative terms: Blind, Sightless
Definition of Sightlessness
1. Noun. The characteristic of being sightless; blindness. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sightlessness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sightlessness
Literary usage of Sightlessness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Animals of the Past by Frederic Augustus Lucas (1900)
"Once established, sightlessness and size play into one another's hands; the
flightless bird has no limit placed on its size * while granted a food supply ..."
2. Original Plays by William Schwenck Gilbert (1905)
"Thou wouldst not burden him With such a curse as utter sightlessness, ...
But sightlessness—it is so terrible ! Cyn. And faithlessness—it is so terrible! ..."
3. All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal by Charles Dickens (1881)
"... that are crossed by the fillet or shade, that have, one or two, spectacles,
so that the sightlessness may be less apparent, so that the sightlessness, ..."
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