tunnel vision

[ tuhn-l vizh-uhn ]
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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.

  1. a fixation on only one objective, course of action, etc.:These special interest groups operate with defiantly single-minded tunnel vision.

Origin of tunnel vision

1
First recorded in 1940–45

Other words from tunnel vision

  • tun·nel-vi·sioned, adjective

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British Dictionary definitions for 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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