ACHROMATISM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does achromatism mean? 

• ACHROMATISM (noun)
  The noun ACHROMATISM has 1 sense:

1. the visual property of being without chromatic color

  Familiarity information: ACHROMATISM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACHROMATISM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The visual property of being without chromatic color

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

achromaticity; achromatism; colorlessness; colourlessness

Hypernyms ("achromatism" is a kind of...):

visual property (an attribute of vision)

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

achromia (an absence of normal pigmentation especially in the skin (as in albinism) or in red blood cells)