blindspot
blindspot Lexical Profile
blindspot Game Scores & Validity
• noun
An area where a person's view is obstructed, especially the zone around a vehicle that cannot be directly observed by the driver in the mirrors.
"Always check your blindspot by looking over your shoulder before changing lanes on the highway."
An area in which a person lacks understanding, awareness, or impartiality, often due to unconscious bias or habit.
"Even experienced researchers can have a methodological blindspot when evaluating their own hypotheses."
The small circular area on the retina where the optic nerve enters the eyeball and which lacks photoreceptor cells, making it insensitive to light.
"The human brain automatically fills in visual details to compensate for the anatomical blindspot in each eye."
Word Nuance & Usage
Although the open compound 'blind spot' remains more common in formal style guides, the closed form 'blindspot' is widely used in modern writing, particularly for the figurative sense of a cognitive or analytical oversight.