different between heedlessness vs blindness

English

Etymology

heedless +? -ness

Noun

heedlessness (usually uncountable, plural heedlessnesses)

1. The state or character of being heedless

   Synonyms: inattention, carelessness, thoughtlessness

Synonyms

• unheed (noun)

Translations

References

• heedlessness in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

English

Etymology

From Middle English blyndnes, blyndnesse, from Old English blindnes (“blindness”), equivalent to blind +? -ness.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bla?ndn?s/
• Hyphenation: blind?ness

Noun

blindness (usually uncountable, plural blindnesses)

1. The condition of being blind; unable to see.
2. (figuratively) Want of intellectual or moral discernment; mental darkness; ignorance, heedlessness.
3. (obsolete) concealment

Synonyms

• ablepsy (rare)
• blindhood (rare)
• cecity
• sightlessness

Derived terms

• colour blindness, color blindness
• deaf-blindness, deafblindness
• snow blindness
• stereoblindness

Translations

See also

• anosmia
• deafness

References

• blindness in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• “blindness”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000