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Inability to see or respond to visual cues.
Metaphor
Individuals and groups may be blind to conditions or configurations of events in their environment and thus be unable to adjust their behaviour usefully in relation to them. This can inhibit human and social development. It renders those so afflicted vulnerable to catastrophic accidents.
[Features]The total deprivation of a particular type of sensory input. In the case of blindness from birth, this also involves a complete lack of realization of the dimensions revealed by right. It also results in considerably increased emphasis on other forms of sensory input.
[Contrast]There is little general awareness of the extent to which people and groups may be blind to features of significance for the social development of their environment.
[Keys]Transient blindness and its causes. Blindness resulting from infectious or non-infectious diseases, or from diseases of the eye. Congenital blindness. Aids for the blind. Guide dogs.