color blindness
Use Color blindness in a sentencecolor blindness
noun
1.
inability to distinguish one or several chromatic colors, independent of the capacity for distinguishing light and shade.
2.
complete inability to distinguish colors of the spectrum, with all objects appearing as shades of gray, black, and white, varying only as to lightness and darkness; achromatopsia.
Origin:
1835–45
1835–45
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Word Origin & History
color blindness
1844, replacing Daltonism (after Eng. chemist John Dalton, 1766-1844, who published a description of it in 1794); in fig, use, with ref. to race or ethnicity, attested from 1866, Amer.Eng. Related: color blind.
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Color blindness
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
American Heritage
Medical Dictionary
color blindness n.
Deficiency of color perception, whether hereditary or acquired, partial or complete.
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Example sentences
It is, however a pity that the supporting graphs are making no allowance for color blindness.
There are many things to plan for, such as color blindness, that you can use to help make decisions.
Genetic intervention cures color blindness in monkeys.
For individuals without color blindness, the illusions work on their processing abilities--it's color in context.
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