cécité
French, noun/se.si.te/
cécité is spelled C-É-C-I-T-É (6 letters) and appears 1.3 times per million words in written French, the 27,365th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cécité is a French feminine noun meaning “blindness (condition of being blind)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “État d’une personne aveugle”.
What does cécité mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineblindness (condition of being blind)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. État d’une personne aveugle. 2. État d'une personne qui refuse de reconnaître quelque chose.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of cécité
- cécités plural
- cæcité alternative obsolete
- cœcité alternative hypercorrect obsolete
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cécité?
- /se.si.te/
- \se.si.te\
- [se.si.te]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cécité
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cécité in French?
cécité appears 1.3 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).