tunnel vision

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noun

a drastically narrowed field of vision, as in looking through a tube, symptomatic of retinitis pigmentosa.

an extremely narrow or prejudiced outlook; narrow-mindedness.

Origin:
1940–45

Related forms

tun·nel-vi·sioned, adjective

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World English Dictionary

tunnel vision

—n
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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American Heritage

Medical Dictionary

tunnel vision n.
vision in which the visual field is severely constricted.

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Example sentences

Avoid tunnel vision that results in focusing on one injury and not others.

Talk about the selfish tunnel vision of the privileged.

Perhaps it's unfair of me, but it seems to me that there's a lot of tunnel

vision in these proposals.

Distracted drivers experience what researchers call inattention blindness,

similar to that of tunnel vision.

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"Whereas the child is chiefly playful and experimental, the adult focuses on specific and conscious experiences. He practices selective inattention to the objects for which he has no immediate use and develops a kind of tunnel vision that helps him to move toward selected goals. This focusing on a limited range of experiences and goals is largely responsible for one's individual evolution and gives a deep and almost tragic significance to a statement made by Albert Camus in his novel La Chute: "Après un certain âge tout homme est responsable do son visage." An almost identical statement appears as the last entry in George Orwell's notebooks: "At 50, everyone has the face he deserves." There could not any more absolute affirmation of belief in personal responsibility for the quality of one's own life and character."

-Rene Dubos

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