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View synonyms for color blindness

color blindness

noun

  1. inability to distinguish one or several chromatic colors, independent of the capacity for distinguishing light and shade.
  2. complete inability to distinguish colors of the spectrum, with all objects appearing as shades of gray, black, and white, varying only as to lightness and darkness; achromatopsia.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of color blindness1

First recorded in 1835–45
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Example Sentences

In comparing notes with my Philosopher I am chagrined at my own color-blindness.

From the Stoelting Company you can obtain the Holmgren worsteds for studying color blindness.

Another visual defect of a different nature is known as partial color blindness.

In some employments color blindness in an employee would be fatal to many lives.

These contrasted cases are indeed convenient tests for color-blindness.

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