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Sightlessness

Sightless \Sight"less\, a.

  1. Wanting sight; without sight; blind.

    Of all who blindly creep or sightless soar.
    --Pope.

  2. That can not be seen; invisible. [Obs.]

    The sightless couriers of the air.
    --Shak.

  3. Offensive or unpleasing to the eye; unsightly; as, sightless stains. [R.]
    --Shak. [1913 Webster] -- Sight"less*ly, adv.- Sight"less*ness, n.

Wiktionary
sightlessness

n. the characteristic of being sightless; blindness

WordNet
sightlessness

n. lack of sight [syn: blindness, cecity]

Usage examples of "sightlessness".

He remembered the words of colours, but no one could know whether what he saw within, behind his sightlessness, in any way corresponded now to the reality, whether blue was indeed blue.

She saw the scars on the side of her jaw, saw the cast in one eye that witnessed sightlessness, the narrowness in the other that witnessed fear.

The wodewose screamed again, louder, closer this time, and she covered her head with her hands, hoping against reason that her sightlessness rendered her invisible.

The temporary sightlessness that Drew had experienced in his sleeping quarters when he used the lightning to help him scan the room would be drastically intensified through a night scope.

The resulting splatter of muck glooped uncannily into Twilly's good eye, completing his decline to full sightlessness.