tunnel vision
a drastically narrowed field of vision, as in looking through a tube, symptomatic of retinitis pigmentosa.
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.
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
1Other words from tunnel vision
- tun·nel-vi·sioned, adjective
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How to use tunnel vision in a sentence
And the faster our hurrying, the more acute our tunnel vision becomes.
Chris Christie and the Runaway High-Speed Presidency Train | James Poulos | January 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST“The security measures create a tunnel vision,” says Benedetto, which Wanderlust hopes to disrupt.
A Most Illegal Adventure with New York City’s Wildest Underground Event Planners | Nina Strochlic | December 16, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTPerhaps the police had tunnel vision, fixated from the beginning on the belief that the killers were drug dealers.
How Local Police Missed a Chance to Stop Tamerlan Tsarnaev in 2011 | Michael Daly | July 12, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
British Dictionary definitions for tunnel vision
a condition in which peripheral vision is greatly restricted
narrowness of viewpoint resulting from concentration on a single idea, opinion, etc, to the exclusion of others
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