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CECITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cecity mean?
• CECITY (noun)
The noun CECITY has 1 sense:
1. the state of being blind or lacking sight
Familiarity information: CECITY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The state of being blind or lacking sight
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
blindness; cecity; sightlessness
Hypernyms ("cecity" is a kind of...):
vision defect; visual defect; visual disorder; visual impairment (impairment of the sense of sight)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cecity"):
legal blindness (vision that is 20/200 or worse in both eyes (20/200 vision is the ability to see at 20 feet what a normal eye can see at 200 feet))
anopia (sightlessness (especially because of a structural defect in or the absence of an eye))
snow-blindness; snowblindness (temporary blindness caused by exposure to sunlight reflected from snow or ice)
eyelessness (blindness due to loss of the eyes)
figural blindness (inability to see shapes and contours)
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