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Definition of Dichromasy
1. Noun. A deficiency of color vision in which the person can match any given hue by mixing only two other wavelengths of light (as opposed to the three wavelengths needed by people with normal color vision).
Generic synonyms: Color Blindness, Color Vision Deficiency, Colour Blindness, Colour Vision Deficiency
Specialized synonyms: Red-green Color Blindness, Red-green Colour Blindness, Red-green Dichromacy, Yellow-blue Color Blindness, Yellow-blue Dichromacy
Derivative terms: Dichromatic
Definition of Dichromasy
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of dichromacy) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dichromasy
Literary usage of Dichromasy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Studies from the Yale Psychological Laboratory by Yale University Psychological Laboratory, Edward Wheeler Scripture (1899)
"To suppose that all essentially important cases of defect belong to the two types
of dichromasy known as the first and the second would be a neglect of ..."
2. Manual of Mental and Physical Tests: A Book of Directions Compiled with by Guy Montrose Whipple (1910)
"... and dichromasy appear to coexist in the same eye. In theory, the color-weak
are not to be identified with the colorblind. Their defect ranges all the ..."
3. Zeitschrift für Psychologie und Physiologie der Sinnesorgane by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie (1896)
"On a case of yellow-blue blindness and its bearings on the theories of dichromasy.
Nature. Vol. 51. S. 335—336. (1895.) Kurzer historischer Überblick über ..."
4. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"But the existence of cases of monocular dichromasy has proved (what was in fact
definitely made out long before by William Pole from the study of his own ..."
5. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"But the existence of cases of monocular dichromasy has proved (what was in fact
definitely made out long before by William Pole from the study of his own ..."
6. The New Psychology by Edward Wheeler Scripture (1897)
"82, W, and W,,): It was quite evident that the subjects belonged to two different
forms of dichromasy. The whole world of colour thus appears to a dichromat ..."
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