anopia


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anopia

(ænˈəʊpɪə)
n
the inability to see; sightlessness
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Noun1.anopia - sightlessness (especially because of a structural defect in or the absence of an eye)anopia - sightlessness (especially because of a structural defect in or the absence of an eye)
blindness, cecity, sightlessness - the state of being blind or lacking sight
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Here one might open a long parenthesis on the relation between melancholy and the other philosophical moods: wonder, the perplexity of anopia, and the Stimmung which Heidegger is most concerned with here: boredom.
What we are currently witnessing is neither justice nor solution, but governmental enigma and societal anopia, if not pure national hysteria (or madness).