Definition of Color blindness

1. Noun. Genetic inability to distinguish differences in hue.

Exact synonyms: Color Vision Deficiency, Colour Blindness, Colour Vision Deficiency
Specialized synonyms: Dichromacy, Dichromasy, Dichromatism, Dichromatopsia, Dichromia, Monochromacy, Monochromasy, Monochromatic Vision, Monochromatism, Monochromia
Generic synonyms: Birth Defect, Congenital Abnormality, Congenital Anomaly, Congenital Defect, Congenital Disorder, Vision Defect, Visual Defect, Visual Disorder, Visual Impairment
Derivative terms: Color-blind, Colour-blind

Definition of Color blindness

1. Noun. (pathology) Any of several medical conditions in which the physical ability to see colors is impaired, especially Achromatopsia, Daltonism. ¹

2. Noun. (figuratively) Indifference to a person's skin color or race. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Color Blindness

coloptosis
colopuncture
color
color'd
color-blind
color-blind person
color-blindness
color-coordinated
color-octet
color TV
color TV tube
color bar
color bars
color bearer
color blind
color blindness (current term)
color by number
color by numbers
color charge
color charges
color chart
color circle
color code
color commentator
color commentators
color constancy
color coordinate
color coordinated
color coordinates
color coordinating

Literary usage of Color blindness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1881)
"BY JOHN FEE, MD The visual defect known as Daltonism, or color-blindness, has associated with it two sides-—-the one theoretical, the other practical. ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1887)
"COLOR-BLINDNESS AMONG RAILWAY EMPLOYEES. DR. B. JOY JEFFRIES, at the last meeting of the American ophthalmological society, called attention to the total ..."

3. Heredity in Relation to Eugenics by Charles Benedict Davenport (1911)
"color blindness. — The inability to distinguish certain colors, notably red and green, is not a rare condition but much less common in women than men (in ..."

4. Text-book of Ophthalmology by Ernst Fuchs (1911)
"color blindness.—color blindness occurs both as a congenital and an acquired ... Congenital color blindness is known as daltonism, after the English ..."

5. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1911)
"A survey of the literature of color-blindness indicates that we are indebted to Herschel (21) for the first suggestion of the idea that the color-system of ..."

6. Sketches and Reminiscences of the Radical Club of Chestnut Street, Boston by Mary Elizabeth Fiske Sargent (1880)
"COLOR-BLINDNESS. BY B. JOY JEFFRIES. DR. JEFFRIES gave a lecture on the color sense and color-blindness. He illustrated the natural or normal color ..."

7. A Text-book of Human Physiology: Including Histology and Microscopical by Leonard Landois, Albert Philson Brubaker (1905)
"The designation color-blindness was given the condition by Brewster. The adherents of the Young-Helmholtz theory assume the following varieties of ..."

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