blep-, -blepsia +
(Greek: look, see; sight, seeing, vision; a condition of sight or vision)
ablepsia
1. Loss of sight; literally, not seeing.
2. Blindness.
ablepsis
Lack of sight; blindness.
ablepsy
Lacking vision or sight; blindness.
ableptical
Relating to, or a reference to, blindness or a lack of vision.
acyanoblepsia
The inability to discern blue colors.
anablepophobia
An excessive fear of looking up at high places.
These phobics avoid looking up at the tops of tall buildings in cities and at the tops of mountains while in the country.
The phobic of heights becomes overwhelmingly uncomfortable and fearful, sometimes having symptoms associated with panic attacks; such as, palpitations, sweating, dizziness, and difficulty in breathing.
blepsopathy, blepsopathia
A disorder of eyesight.
chionablepsia
Snow blindness (affected with blindness by the abnormal brightness of snow).
lamprablepsia
The temporary impairment of vision resulting from looking at a bright object.
monoblepsia
1. A condition in which vision is better, or is more distinct, when only one eye is used; but there is confusion when both eyes are used.
2. A variety of color blindness in which only one color is perceived.
nephablepsia
Reduced vision due to reduced transparency of the cornea; also nephelopia.
niphablepsia
Snow blindness; a temporary visual loss due to corneal epithelial damage by ultraviolet light reflected from the surface of snow.
opsablepsia
The inability to look someone in the eye, or not looking into another person's eyes, while speaking.
oxyblepsia
Acuteness of sight, sharp-sightedness.
parablepsia, parablepsy
1. Abnormality of one's vision; such as, visual illusions or hallucinations.
2. False vision.
Cross references of word families that are related directly, or indirectly, to: "appear, visible, visual, manifest, show, see, reveal, look":
delo-;
demonstra-;
opt-;
-orama;
pare-;
phanero-;
phant-;
pheno-;
scopo-;
spec-;
vela-, veal-;
video-, visuo-.
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