Blindism

Quick meaning: Blindism is a noun meaning An idiosyncratic behaviour associated with blind people.

Meaning

An idiosyncratic behaviour associated with blind people.

Example Sentences

[…] Anne's mother was chopping what smelled like onions. Nervously, I stuck out my hand to shake hers—a “blindism,” I realized even as I did it, since I knew her hands were busy and messy.

[…] prolonged stay at [asylums] will unfit [the blind] in a great measure for [the actual active world]. Certain peculiar habits are too likely to be acquired, harmless enough in themselves and useful to sightless persons when together, but which attract attention and stamp one as odd in the outside world. […] all of which are roughly but forcibly classed in the school phraseology under the head of “blindisms,”[…]

Word Forms

• blindisms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include agnosopsia, dayblindness, colourblindness, colorblindness, deafism, amblyopia.

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