mind-blindnessn.
/ˈmʌɪndˌblʌɪn(d)nᵻs/, U.S. /ˈmaɪn(d)ˌblaɪn(d)nᵻs/ 1. gen. An inability or refusal to acknowledge or accept evidence; lack of understanding. rare.
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the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > imperfect perception > [noun]
thesterc897
blindness971
obscurationa1550
twilight1610
ablepsy1616
obcaecationa1631
mind-blindness1649
blear-eyedness1653
short-sightedness1670
blearedness1678
crassitude1679
myopia1801
purblindness1834
bat-mindedness1869
myopism1880
short sighta1888
1649 S. Rutherford Free Disputation 65 Not black the spotlesse justice of our Lord, who yet punisheth originall mind-blindnesse in thousands of the sons of Adam.
1905 W. Osler Student Life 6 The tragic fate is to reach..a condition of mind-blindness in which the truth is not recognized, though it stares you in the face.
1989 R. Ornstein & P. Ehrlich New World New Mind ii. vii. 169 The Star Wars program represents the continuation of a mind-blindness to trends that have long made military thinking one of the clearest examples of the functioning of the old mind.
2. Medicine. The inability to recognize objects by sight, caused by lesions of certain parts of the cerebral cortex; visual agnosia. Also called psychic blindness. Now historical.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of nervous system > [noun] > disorders of brain > other brain disorders
brain damage1864
mind-blindness1888
satellitosis1906
syringobulbia1908
Alzheimer's disease1911
kernicterus1912
pseudotumour1914
brain death1928
punch-drunk1928
Sturge–Weber syndrome1935
Alzheimer1938
Creutzfeldt–Jakob1939
Alzheimer1940
Schilder's disease1940
hypsarrhythmia1952
kuru1957
laughing death1957
Minamata disease1957
myelinolysis1959
spongiform encephalopathy1960
CJD1975
old-timer's disease1983
mad —— disease1990
1888 W. R. Gowers Man. Dis. Nerv. Syst. II. iv. 21 Cortical lesions in dogs that do not cause loss of sight may abolish or impair the power of recognising the nature of seen objects..; the condition has been termed mind-blindness (Munk).
1900 J. Hinshelwood Letter-, Word- & Mind-Blindness. 25 Sweep away the visual memories or images from the brain, and you have the condition commonly known by the term ‘mind-blindness’. In this condition the object is seen, but there is no intelligent recognition of it.
1909 Encycl. Relig. & Ethics II. 710/2 ‘Mind-blindness’ is an acquired condition in which objects can be seen, but fail to be recognized by the sense of sight.
1948 Amer. Jrnl. Ophthalmol. 31 811/1 Agnostic alexia is an infrequent form of aphasia and is a variety of visual agnosia (mind blindness).
1992 Sci. Amer. Sept. 45/1 Flechsig's theory found support in rather questionable evidence purporting to show that lesions in this so-called visual association cortex..might lead to ‘mind blindness’ (Seelenblindheit), a condition in which subjects were thought to see but not to comprehend what they saw.
3. Psychology. An inability to recognize, understand, or interpret mental states (thoughts, beliefs, intentions, etc.) in oneself or others, attributed to persons with autism and related disorders.
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1990 S. Baron-Cohen in Internat. Rev. Psychiatry 2 88/1 In the title of this paper I have coined the term ‘mind-blindness’ to describe the circumscribed nature of the cognitive deficit in autism.
1994 Daily Tel. 24 Aug. 14/4 (caption) Autism is a brain-based disorder characterised by ‘mind-blindness’.
1999 Independent 11 Jan. ii. 4/2 Social difficulties..appear to spring from a failure to represent thoughts and feelings—sometimes called ‘mind-blindness’. What ‘mind-blindness’ and indeed all deficit accounts of autism, fails to explain is why people with autism are often so unusually good at certain things.
2001 New Scientist 27 Jan. 26/1 Some researchers have suggested that the inability to ‘read’ the minds of others, dubbed ‘mind-blindness’, is one of the main deficits of autism.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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