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"anopsia" is blindness
Anu's example makes clear that the word can be used in the figurative sense, not just the strickly medical sense:
Odd then that with the proliferation of discourses surrounding the concept of "the postcolonial," so little attention should have been paid to a text ... There are, I think, three particular difficulties which may help account for that critical anopsia.
The metaphoric usage brings the word within tsuwm's wwftd preference for the "recondite word, especially one not falling into the following categories: medical terms ..."
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted Anopsia statwomanma 04/16/02 02:56 PM Re: Anopsia tsuwm 04/16/02 03:07 PM Re: Anopsia hev 04/17/02 12:59 AM Re: Anopsia johnjohn 04/17/02 09:13 AM Re: Anopsia Alex Williams 04/17/02 10:13 AM Re: Anopsia johnjohn 04/17/02 01:07 PM Re: Anopsia slithy toves 04/17/02 03:50 PM Re: Anopsia Jackie 04/18/02 10:57 AM Re: Anopsia Capital Kiwi 04/18/02 03:19 AM Re: Anopsia statwomanma 04/18/02 10:46 AM homonymous hemianopsia wofahulicodoc 04/19/02 09:11 PM "critical anopsia" Keiva 04/19/02 10:31 PM Anopsia vs anopia doc_comfort 04/21/02 06:25 AM
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