Blindness is responsible for a staggering toll of poor health, suffering, and loss of dignity and diminution in the quality of lives of people worldwide.
Source: tatoeba (1904)
Blindness
//ˈblaɪndnəs//
Synonyms for "blindness" (55 found)
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Closest matches (11)
Strong matches (17)
Related words (27)
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8 entriesTranslations
78 translations across 59 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- τυφλότης noun (condition of being blind)
Arabic
1 entries- عَمًى noun (condition of being blind)
Armenian
1 entries- կուրություն noun (condition of being blind)
Aromanian
2 entries- urbari noun (condition of being blind)
- urbeatsã noun (condition of being blind)
Asturian
1 entries- ceguera noun (condition of being blind)
Belarusian
1 entries- слепата́ noun (condition of being blind)
Bengali
1 entries- অন্ধত্ব noun (condition of being blind)
Bulgarian
1 entries- слепота noun (condition of being blind)
Catalan
1 entries- ceguesa noun (condition of being blind)
Central Kurdish
2 entries- kwêrî noun (condition of being blind)
- کوێری noun (condition of being blind)
Cherokee
2 entries- ᏗᎨᏩᏍᏗ noun (condition of being blind)
- ᏗᎨᏫᏍᏗ noun (condition of being blind)
Chichewa
1 entries- khungu noun (condition of being blind)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 盲目性 noun (condition of being blind)
Czech
1 entries- slepota noun (condition of being blind)
Danish
1 entries- blindhed noun (condition of being blind)
Dutch
1 entries- blindheid noun (condition of being blind)
Esperanto
1 entries- blindeco noun (condition of being blind)
Estonian
1 entries- pimedus noun (condition of being blind)
Faroese
3 entries- blindi noun (condition of being blind)
- blindleiki noun (condition of being blind)
- blindni noun (condition of being blind)
Finnish
1 entries- sokeus noun (condition of being blind)
French
1 entries- cécité noun (condition of being blind)
Galician
1 entries- cegueira noun (condition of being blind)
Georgian
2 entries- სიბრმავე noun (condition of being blind)
- უსინათლობა noun (condition of being blind)
German
1 entries- Blindheit noun (condition of being blind)
Greek
2 entries- τυφλότητα noun (condition of being blind)
- τύφλωση noun (condition of being blind)
Hebrew
1 entries- עיוורון noun (condition of being blind)
Hindi
2 entries- अंधता noun (condition of being blind)
- अंधापन noun (condition of being blind)
Hungarian
1 entries- vakság noun (condition of being blind)
Irish
1 entries- daille noun (condition of being blind)
Italian
1 entries- cecità noun (condition of being blind)
Japanese
2 entries- 盲 noun (condition of being blind)
- 盲目 noun (condition of being blind)
Kalmyk
1 entries- бала noun (condition of being blind)
Khmer
2 entries- ភាពខ្វាក់ noun (condition of being blind)
- ភាពពិការភ្នែក noun (condition of being blind)
Korean
1 entries- 장님 noun (condition of being blind)
Latin
1 entries- caecitās noun (condition of being blind)
Macedonian
1 entries- слепило noun (condition of being blind)
Malayalam
1 entries- അന്ധത noun (condition of being blind)
Mongolian
1 entries- сохор noun (condition of being blind)
Northern Kurdish
2 entries- korahî noun (condition of being blind)
- korî noun (condition of being blind)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- blindhet noun (condition of being blind)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- blindskap noun (condition of being blind)
Persian
1 entries- نابینایی noun (condition of being blind)
Polish
1 entries- ślepota noun (condition of being blind)
Portuguese
1 entries- cegueira noun (condition of being blind)
Romanian
1 entries- orbire noun (condition of being blind)
Russian
1 entries- слепота́ noun (condition of being blind)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- doille noun (condition of being blind)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- slepilo noun (condition of being blind)
- slepoća noun (condition of being blind)
- sljepilo noun (condition of being blind)
- sljepoća noun (condition of being blind)
Slovak
1 entries- slepota noun (condition of being blind)
Slovene
1 entries- slepota noun (condition of being blind)
Spanish
1 entries- ceguera noun (condition of being blind)
Swahili
1 entries- upofu noun (condition of being blind)
Swedish
1 entries- blindhet noun (condition of being blind)
Telugu
2 entries- అంధత్వము noun (condition of being blind)
- గుడ్డితనం noun (condition of being blind)
Turkish
1 entries- körlük noun (condition of being blind)
Turkmen
1 entries- körlük noun (condition of being blind)
Ukrainian
1 entries- сліпота́ noun (condition of being blind)
Unami
1 entries- ahkèpinkëwakàn noun (condition of being blind)
Vietnamese
1 entries- chứng mù noun (condition of being blind)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
He made up his mind to jog in spite of his blindness.
Source: tatoeba (304172)
This disease causes blindness.
Source: tatoeba (680483)
But he who knows what insanity is, is sane; whereas insanity can no more be sensible of its own existence, than blindness can see itself.
Source: tatoeba (907506)
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