Blinding can refer to:
- The act of making someone blind
- Metaphorical and extended uses of same: see blindness#Metaphorical uses
The grammatical incorrect use of installing blinds
- Blinding (cryptography), a technique by which an agent can provide a service to (i.e., compute a function for) a client in an encoded form without knowing either the real input or the real output
- Blinding (novel), a novel in three volumes by Mircea Cărtărescu
- Blinding, a song from Florence and the Machine's debut album, Lungs
- A blind experiment, in which the researcher is not aware of which data points were generated by an intervention
Famous quotes containing the word blinding:
“A great man’s followers are accustomed to blinding themselves so they can sing his praises better.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“Age wins and one must learn to grow old.... I must learn to walk this long unlovely wintry way, looking for spectacles, shunning the cruel looking-glass, laughing at my clumsiness before others mistakenly condole, not expecting gallantry yet disappointed to receive none, apprehending every ache of shaft of pain, alive to blinding flashes of mortality, unarmed, totally vulnerable.”
—Diana Cooper (1892–1986)
“This side of the truth,
You may not see, my son,
King of your blue eyes
In the blinding country of youth,
That all is undone,
Under the unminding skies....”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)