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blindness vs legal blindness

legal blindness vs blindness

blindness and legal blindness both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
blindness Yes No No No
legal blindness Yes No No No
As nouns, legal blindness is a hyponym of blindness; that is, legal blindness is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than blindness:
  • blindness: the state of being blind or lacking sight
  • 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)
Other hyponyms of blindness include anopia, snow-blindness, snowblindness, eyelessness, figural blindness.
blindness (noun) legal blindness (noun)
the state of being blind or lacking sight 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)
Difference between blindness and legal blindness

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