The condition of being without sight or experiencing blindness.
From Greek 'a-' (without) + 'blepsis' (sight, from 'blepo' meaning to see). A variant form of ablepsia, this term emerged in medical Greek and entered English medical vocabulary in the 1600s-1700s.
The root 'blepo' (to see) lives on in modern words like 'blepharitis' (eyelid inflammation), so even though we don't say 'ablepsy' anymore, its Greek core is still hiding in eye doctor terminology!
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