color blindness

NOUN

inability to distinguish one or more colors

Synonyms

WEAK

achromatic vision achromatopsia color vision deficiency daltonism dichromatic vision

Example Sentences

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Measuring the scale of racism and racial inequality in France is complicated by its official policy of color blindness, with strict limits on data that can be collected.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 4, 2023

John Dalton was the first person to identify red-green color blindness, in 1798—that’s really quite recent.

From Scientific American • Nov. 1, 2022

You can see him thinking through color choices, maybe even dealing with color blindness.

From Washington Post • Feb. 17, 2022

The Tampa Bay play calling screen in Madden NFL 21 with color blindness settings set to deuteranopia, simulated as seen by someone with red-green color blindness.

From The Verge • Aug. 24, 2021

No one had ever tested us for hernia or color blindness.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles