Hypertext Webster Gateway: "sightlessness"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Sightless \Sight"less\, a.
1. Wanting sight; without sight; blind.
Of all who blindly creep or sightless soar. --Pope.
2. That can not be seen; invisible. [Obs.]
The sightless couriers of the air. --Shak.
3. Offensive or unpleasing to the eye; unsightly; as,
sightless stains. [R.] --Shak. -- {Sight"less*ly}, adv.-
{Sight"less*ness}, n.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
sightlessness
n : lack of sight [syn: {blindness}, {cecity}]
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