color-blind

[ kuhl-er-blahynd ]

adjective

1. Ophthalmology. pertaining to or affected with color blindness.
2. Photography. (of an emulsion) sensitive only to blue, violet, and ultraviolet rays.
3. showing or characterized by freedom from racial bias; not influenced by skin color.

Word History and Origins

Origin of color-blind¹

First recorded in 1850–55

Example Sentences

As left-wing biographer Rick Perlstein grants, Goldwater was a man of color-blind temperament, conviction, and personal action.

From The Daily Beast

Really looking at the humanity of people, not in a color blind fashion, but in an inclusive fashion.

From The Daily Beast

There is much to be proud of yet much more work to do for America to become truly color-blind.

From The Daily Beast

This is not the color-blind America Dr. King and true leaders of the civil-rights era fought for.

From The Daily Beast

Richard Wright and James Baldwin had made France out to be a color-blind paradise.

From The Daily Beast

It is supposed that in color blind persons one of the sets of nerve endings sensitive to one of these three colors is lacking.

From Project Gutenberg

The ordinary physical plane person is simply "color blind" to the astral colors—that's all.

From Project Gutenberg

Aside from her rheumatism the good lady had one other physical weakness; she was color-blind.

From Project Gutenberg

They had no more notion of its true nature than a color-blind man, who has not discerned his defect, has of the nature of color.

From Project Gutenberg

In thus mingling the gray with the blue he was neither color-blind nor purblind.

From Project Gutenberg