color blindness
See also: colorblindness and color-blindness
English
Alternative forms
- color-blindness, colorblindness
- colour blindness, colour-blindness, colourblindness (British spelling)
Etymology
color blind + -ness or color + blindness
Noun
color blindness (countable and uncountable, plural color blindnesses) (American spelling)
- (medicine, ophthalmology) Any of several medical conditions in which the physical ability to see colors is impaired, especially achromatopsia, Daltonism.
- (figuratively) Indifference to a person's skin color or race.
- 2003, Kimberly L. Ebert, "Demystifying Color-Blind Ideology", in C. Herring et al., Skin Deep: How Race and Complexion Matter in the "Color-Blind" Era, p. 1985:
- Despite the fact that race is embedded in American social life, "color blindness" has recently emerged as the dominant ideology of race.
- 2003, Kimberly L. Ebert, "Demystifying Color-Blind Ideology", in C. Herring et al., Skin Deep: How Race and Complexion Matter in the "Color-Blind" Era, p. 1985:
Derived terms
- red-green color blindness / red-green colour blindness
Translations
condition in which the ability to see colors is impaired
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indifference to a person's skin color or race
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See also
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