blind spot, blind to
Terms like blind spot and similar phrasing when used in phrases such as they have a blind spot to the situation
or they are blind to the needs of others.
Try to write around such phrasing or use alternative phrases:
- Feigned ignorance
- Lack of confidence
- Lack of knowledge
- Willful ignorance
- Turned away
- Ignored
- Drawback
- Deliberately ignoring
- Turning their back on
- Overcome by prejudice
- Doubly anonymous
- Had every reason to know
Also see blind, low vision.
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