单词 | humour-blindness |
释义 | > as lemmashumour-blindness humour-blindness n. †(a) severe inflammation of the eye (of a horse) attributed to an abnormally thickened state of the humours (obsolete rare); (b) lack of a sense of humour; failure to appreciate or recognize humour. ΚΠ 1798 J. Lawrence Philos. & Pract. Treat. Horses II. 474 Humour-blindness, or Inveterate Opthalmy [sic]. The whole is eye is inflamed both internally and externally, and the admission of light occasions intolerable pain; the proximate cause, I apprehend, to be either obstruction in the capillaries, the blood being too dense for circulation, or a dilatation and weakness of the vessels themselves. 1800 Sportsman's Dict. (new ed.) at Eye of a Horse If the eyes are naturally good, a cure may be wrought by..the constant use, twice a day, of the saturnine collyrium prescribed in humour-blindness. 1892 Current Lit. 9 437 Humor-blindness of the mind is like color-blindness of the eye. 1901 Cent. Mag. Mar. 798/2 I chuckled softly to myself over the humor-blindness of women. 2011 Weihe Xu in J. Chey & J. M. Davis Humour in Chinese Life & Lett. 140 Such ‘humour-blindness’ is baffling. < as lemmas |
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