amaurosis

Meanings

1. Any form of blindness that is accompanied by no obvious change to the eye; often the result of disease of the optic nerve.

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin amaurōsis, from Ancient Greek ἀμαύρωσις (amaúrōsis, “dimming, obscuring, amaurosis”), from ᾰ̓μαυρόω (ămauróō, “to grow dim”), from ἀμαυρός (amaurós, “dim”).