mind-blindadj.n.
/ˈmʌɪndˌblʌɪnd/, U.S. /ˈmaɪn(d)ˌblaɪnd/ Suffering from or exhibiting mind-blindness. Also as n.
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bound1704
Wernicke1887
mind-blind1905
Alzheimer1911
Waterhouse–Friderichsen syndrome1934
brain-damaged1946
kernicteric1956
brain-dead1972
C-J1972
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flatline1978
Creutzfeldt–Jakob1987
1905 W. Osler Student Life 6 It is one of the great tragedies of life that every truth has to struggle to acceptance against honest but mind-blind students.
1908 Jrnl. Nerv. & Mental Dis. 35 616 The mind-blind patient sees objects..but is unable to recognize the nature of the objects which he sees.
1939 tr. K. Goldstein Organism vi. 243 This became particularly clear in the substitute-formation of the ‘mind-blind’ patient.
1994 Daily Tel. 24 Aug. 14/1 Since we know that some mind-blind autistic people are highly intelligent, we can also hypothesise that mind-reading is a discrete skill performed by a specific neural pathway.
1995 Newsweek 14 Aug. 67/3 Like the visually blind, the mindblind can learn to compensate for their perceptual lapses.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.n.1905