caecitas

caecĭtas, ātis, f. [caecus], blindness.

I.

Lit. (rare but in good prose), Cic. Tusc. 5, 39, 113; 5, 38, 111; id. Fin. 5, 28, 84; Plin. 11, 37, 55, § 149; 12, 8, 18, § 34.—

II.

Trop.:

furorem autem esse rati sunt mentis ad omnia caecitatem,

Cic. Tusc. 3, 5, 11:

in furore animi et caecitate,

id. Dom. 50, 129:

mentis,

id. ib. 40, 105; cf.:

an tibi luminis obesset caecitas plus quam libidinis,

id. Har. Resp. 18, 38.