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GREEN-BLINDNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does green-blindness mean?
• GREEN-BLINDNESS (noun)
The noun GREEN-BLINDNESS has 1 sense:
1. dichromacy characterized by a lowered sensitivity to green light resulting in an inability to distinguish green and purplish-red
Familiarity information: GREEN-BLINDNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Dichromacy characterized by a lowered sensitivity to green light resulting in an inability to distinguish green and purplish-red
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
Daltonism; deuteranopia; green-blindness
Hypernyms ("green-blindness" is a kind of...):
red-green color blindness; red-green colour blindness; red-green dichromacy (confusion of red and green)
Derivation:
green-blind (inability to see the color green or to distinguish green and purplish-red)
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