blindsight

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The responsivity shown by some blind or partially blind people to visual stimuli of which they are not consciously aware.

Word forms

blindsight

Etymology

From blind + sight. Coined in a 1974 paper in the Lancet by Sanders et al.

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