cecity

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  • noun Blindness.

Examples

  • After light's term, a term of cecity: the best hope for the future, that light will return and banish the follies, sophistries, delusions, which have accumulated in the darkness.

    Matthew Arnold

  • You have divine insights, as we all have, of heaven, all of us with whom the mortal mind does not cake and obstruct into cecity.

    The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  • I can only marvel at the utter want of comprehension and appreciation with which this critic read what he wrote about: one hemisphere of his brain must have been otherwise occupied and his mental cecity makes him a phenomenon even amongst reviewers.

    Arabian nights. English

Note

The word 'cecity' comes from a Latin word meaning 'blindness'.