COLOR BLINDNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does color blindness mean? 

• COLOR BLINDNESS (noun)
  The noun COLOR BLINDNESS has 1 sense:

1. genetic inability to distinguish differences in hue

  Familiarity information: COLOR BLINDNESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COLOR BLINDNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Genetic inability to distinguish differences in hue

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

color blindness; color vision deficiency; colour blindness; colour vision deficiency

Hypernyms ("color blindness" is a kind of...):

birth defect; congenital abnormality; congenital anomaly; congenital defect; congenital disorder (a defect that is present at birth)

vision defect; visual defect; visual disorder; visual impairment (impairment of the sense of sight)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "color blindness"):

dichromacy; dichromasy; dichromatism; dichromatopsia; dichromia (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))

monochromacy; monochromasy; monochromatic vision; monochromatism; monochromia (complete color blindness; colors can be differentiated only on the basis of brightness)

Derivation:

color-blind; colour-blind (unable to distinguish one or more chromatic colors)

 Context examples 

Most of the time, color blindness is genetic.

(Color Blindness, NIH)