Synonyms for color blindness

Grammar : Noun

Définition of color blindness

Origin : 1844, replacing Daltonism (after English chemist John Dalton, 1766-1844, who published a description of it in 1794); in figurative use, with reference to race or ethnicity, attested from 1866, American English. Related: color blind (adj.).

noun inability to distinguish one or more colors

Example sentences :

This idea is given corroboration by some facts of color blindness.
Extract from : « Physics » by Willis Eugene Tower

It must not be assumed that every one has the same sense of color, otherwise there would be no color blindness.
Extract from : « Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887 » by Various

Color blindness, or at least certain kinds of color blindness, appear to follow the same scheme.
Extract from : « A Critique of the Theory of Evolution » by Thomas Hunt Morgan

There is a very important defect in vision which should be detected as early in life as possible, and that is color blindness.
Extract from : « Scientific American Supplement No. 822 » by Various

Until the year 1853, very little was known about color blindness, and much less written about it.
Extract from : « Scientific American Supplement No. 822 » by Various

An interesting example is the common type of color blindness known as Daltonism.
Extract from : « Physiology » by Ernest G. Martin

The subject of color blindness has received much attention because of its practical importance in the affairs of our daily lives.
Extract from : « Elementary Color » by Milton Bradley

He seems to have initiated the theory of color blindness that was later developed by Helmholtz.
Extract from : « A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II) » by Augustus De Morgan

Color blindness seems to be an instance of the conspicuous absence of such a unit characteristic.
Extract from : « Vocational Psychology: Its Problems and Methods » by Harry L. Hollingworth

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