Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Want of sight; blindness.

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  • noun medicine, rare Lack of sight; blindness.

Etymologies

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From Ancient Greek ἀβλεψία (ablepsia, "blindness"), from ἀ- (a-) + βλέπω (blepō, "see").

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Examples

  • Amongst other things, people admired in him his indifference and unconcern; or, to express it in Greek, his meteoria and ablepsia.

    De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

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