cecity

[ see-si-tee ]

noun

1. blindness.

cecity

/ ˈsiːsɪtɪ /

noun

1. a rare word for blindness See blindness

Word History and Origins

Origin of cecity¹

1525–30; from Latin caecitās, equivalent to caecus ”blind“ + -ity

Word History and Origins

Origin of cecity¹

C16: from Latin caecitās, from caecus blind

Example Sentences

But to perceive this the mentally blind are as incapable as the physically blind; and such, mental cecity is as general in these days as myopy is common in the schoolrooms of this generation.

From Project Gutenberg

He was a Romanist, but had he not recovered in some degree from the cecity of superstition, he had not so keenly exposed, as he has done, some vulgar impostures.

From Project Gutenberg

At the theater, he bemoans the "limited talents, New World phonemes and intonations and slangy lapses, cecity towards the past, Pyrrhonism and so on of this weak cry of players."

From Time Magazine Archive

Very nice books, though I see you underrate my cecity: I could no more read their beautiful Bible than I could sail in heaven.

From Project Gutenberg

What had our Arthur gain'd, to stop and see, After light's term, a term of cecity, A Church once large and then grown strait in soul?

From Project Gutenberg