blearedness
(ˈblɪədnɪs)
[f. prec. + -ness.]
1. Bleared condition.
| 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. clxxxv. (1495) 726 The dronklew mannes..eyen ben full of whelkes and pymples and of bleryednesse. c 1475 Found. St. Barthol. Hosp. ii. i. (1886) 81 This man putte a syde bleriednes of yen. 1563 T. Gale Antidot. ii. 36 It amendeth the blearednes, and consumeth the teares. |
| transf. 1881 W. Russell Ocean Free L. I. v. 195 There was a haziness about the azure, a blearedness resembling the film on a sick man's eyes. |
2. fig. Affection of the mental or moral vision.
| 1678 R. Barclay Apol. Quakers v. §21. 165 The Blearedness of the Eyes of our Minds. 1851 S. Judd Margaret iii. (1871) 401 Will unkindness, traducement, insinuation, bleardness never cease? |