sightlessness

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sightlessness - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Sightless \Sight"less\, a.
     1. Lacking sight; without sight; blind.
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              Of all who blindly creep or sightless soar. --Pope.
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     2. That can not be seen; invisible. [Obs.]
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              The sightless couriers of the air.    --Shak.
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     3. Offensive or unpleasing to the eye; unsightly; as,
        sightless stains. [R.] --Shak.
        [1913 Webster] -- Sight"less*ly, adv.-
        Sight"less*ness, n.
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sightlessness - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  sightlessness
      n 1: the state of being blind or lacking sight [syn:
           blindness, sightlessness, cecity]