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sightloss en · NOUN

Etymology

From sight + loss.

Meanings

  1. (Ireland, Scotland, uncountable) Loss of sight; partial or total blindness.
    • Maybe her sightloss had sharpened her other senses, but they heard now what the woman had caught– the faint rumble of a truck or van, the modulated whine of someone dropping down the gears to meet the slope. 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 446:
    • Mister Samuels if ye feel that you have sightloss then it is in yer own interest to register it in respect of the physical criteria required for full-function job registration. 1994, James Kelman, How Late It Was How Late:
    • NCBI works to provide the practical, emotional and social support so that people with sightloss can reach their full potential, says Chris White. 2019 August 30, Chris White, “Striving to give people with sight loss an even playing field”, in The Irish Examiner: