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Definition of Color-blind person
1. Noun. A person unable to distinguish differences in hue.
Specialized synonyms: Monochromat, Dichromat
Lexicographical Neighbors of Color-blind Person
Literary usage of Color-blind person
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Color-blindness; Its Dangers and Its Detection by Benjamin Joy Jeffries (1879)
"When two objects or two lights appear of the same color to the eyes of a color-blind
person, they may differ as respects intensity. ..."
2. An American Text-book of Diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat by Burton Alexander Randall, George Edmund DeSchweinitz (1901)
"According to Mauthner, certain colors which the normal eye differentiates appear
to the color-blind person "falsely of the same color"—ie ..."
3. Color-blindness by Benjamin Joy Jeffries (1880)
"When two objects or two lights appear of the same color to the eyes of a color-blind
person, they may differ as respects intensity. ..."
4. Transactions of the American Ophthalmological Society Annual Meeting by American Ophthalmological Society (1876)
"It gives also the color-blind person the appearance of not listening, ... I have,
as 1 said, detected a color-blind person by this look ; but I have also ..."
5. Elements of Human Psychology by Howard Crosby Warren (1922)
"A totally color- blind person sees everything like a photograph; the world appears
to him in black and white and shades of gray, without any color whatever. ..."
6. A Handbook of the diseases of the eye and their treatment by Henry Rosborough Swanzy (1897)
"It is impossible by this test for any color-blind person to escape detection,
... Again, when the color-blind person does happen to know of his defect, ..."
7. Oculo-refractive Cyclopedia and Dictionary by Thomas George Atkinson (1921)
"Different colored surfaces, when polished, have characteristic glares, which a
color-blind person is sometimes able to differentiate from each other, ..."
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