cecity

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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From Latin caecitās (“blindness”), from caecus (“blind”) + -itās (“-ness, -ity”). By surface analysis, Latin caec(us) + -ity.

For this and that way swings The flux of mortal things, Though moving inly to one far-set goal.-- 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? — Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold, Matthew Arnold

blindness, sightlessness

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