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tunnel vision

[ tuhn-l vizh-uhn ]

noun

  1. a drastically narrowed field of vision, as in looking through a tube, symptomatic of retinitis pigmentosa.
  2. the tendency to look at things from only one point of view; prejudice or narrow-mindedness:

    All empires invariably produce a kind of tunnel vision.

  3. a fixation on only one objective, course of action, etc.:

    These special interest groups operate with defiantly single-minded tunnel vision.

tunnel vision

noun

  1. a condition in which peripheral vision is greatly restricted
  2. narrowness of viewpoint resulting from concentration on a single idea, opinion, etc, to the exclusion of others

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Other Words From

  • tun·nel-vi·sioned adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of tunnel vision1

First recorded in 1940–45

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Example Sentences

And the faster our hurrying, the more acute our tunnel vision becomes.

“The security measures create a tunnel vision,” says Benedetto, which Wanderlust hopes to disrupt.

Perhaps the police had tunnel vision, fixated from the beginning on the belief that the killers were drug dealers.

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