cecity (SEE-si-tee) noun

   Blindness.

[From Latin caecitas, from caecus (blind).]

   "I mean that my love for you, which cries out for a physical expression
   you tolerate brutishly, induces a cecity to your inefficiency and your
   bad behavior."
   Earthly Powers, Anthony Burgess, 1980.

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