blind spot

1. 1.

   a subject about which you are ignorant or prejudiced and fail to exercise good judgment

   “golf is one of his blind spots and he's proud of it”

   Broadertopic
2. 2.

   the point where the optic nerve enters the retina; not sensitive to light

   Synonymsoptic discoptic disk

   Broaderpoint

   Part ofretina

Questions about blind spot

What does blind spot mean?

blind spot means "a subject about which you are ignorant or prejudiced and fail to exercise good judgment". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for blind spot?

Close synonyms include optic disc, optic disk. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is blind spot a common word?

blind spot is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.