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amaurosis

Spanish, noun/amauˈɾosis/

amaurosis is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “amaurosis” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Privación total de la vista, ocasionada por lesión en la retina, en el nervio óptico o en el encéfalo, sin…”.

What does amaurosis mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    feminineamaurosis

Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Spanish dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Privación total de la vista, ocasionada por lesión en la retina, en el nervio óptico o en el encéfalo, sin más señal exterior en los ojos que una inmovilidad constante del iris.

The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.

Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

How do you pronounce amaurosis?

  • /amauˈɾosis/
  • [a.mau̯ˈɾo.sis]
  • [amawˈɾosis]

Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to amaurosis

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is amaurosis in Spanish?

amaurosis appears about once in every 31 million words in written Spanish.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).