color blindness
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- noun
- /ˈkʌlər ˈblaɪndnəs/
- US
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daltonismo
- When designing websites, it's important to avoid using color combinations that may confuse individuals with color blindness.
So that if I, you know, think that this is a red chair and then I find out that I actually have red, green color blindness and it's, it's really a green chair.
- So that if I, you know, think that this is a red chair and then I find out that I actually have red, green color blindness and it's, it's really a green chair.
Examples
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The Chief Constable of Hertfordshire Constabulary ruled that the fact that the officer was removed from operational duties because of his color-blindness amounted to indirect discrimination on the grounds of sex.
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And in fact, we do call color blindness Daltonism.
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So that if I, you know, think that this is a red chair and then I find out that I actually have red, green color blindness and it's, it's really a green chair.
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My mother even had me tested for color blindness, since I seemed to have no problems anywhere else, but according to the test, I saw color just fine.
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The colors of dots and stars were selected so that people with any of the four types of color blindness would be able to differentiate between fiction and nonfiction.
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The aspiring officer, who wished to preserve his anonymity, had passed all the other tests to allow him to begin training, but was told his moderate color-blindness meant he would be unable to pursue a career in the force.
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About 8% of boys experience some form of color blindness, affecting their ability to differentiate certain colors.
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During the exam, he realized his color blindness made it difficult to identify some of the questions related to color matching.
Synonyms
A problem where a person cannot tell some colors apart, often red and green
Difficulty telling red and green colors apart
A vision problem that makes red and green look similar
A reduced ability to see red light that makes people confuse red and green
A condition that makes it hard to see the difference between red and green colors
A condition that makes it hard to tell green from red or purple
Trouble telling red from similar colors like purple
A condition that makes green look like red
A rare kind of color blindness that makes blue and yellow hard to tell apart
A condition that makes it hard to tell yellow and blue apart
Difficulty seeing the difference between yellow and blue
Difficulty telling blue and yellow colors apart
A condition in which a person cannot see yellow colors well
A rare eye condition that makes yellow colors hard to see
A condition where a person sees colors with only two types of cells, making red and green hard to tell
A color vision problem where a person sees only two colors and uses two types of light to match others
A condition in which a person sees colors using only two kinds of light instead of three
A vision condition where a person can match any colour using only two colours of light instead of three
A condition where a person sees fewer colors and often confuses red and green
A condition in which someone sees only shades of gray and not colors
A condition in which a person sees only shades of gray
People with complete color blindness see only shades of gray
A condition in which a person sees the world only in shades of gray
A condition in which a person can only see shades of light and dark
A condition in which a person cannot see colors and only sees shades of gray
A lack of color in vision or objects
Antonyms
How Color-Sensitive
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound uses a straightforward metaphor: combining 'color' with 'blindness' signals being 'blind to color' — i.e., ignoring racial differences — so a learner who knows both words could plausibly infer a meaning like 'not seeing or considering race'. However, the phrase extends beyond the literal medical sense into a sociopolitical concept with critical nuance (masking systemic inequality), so the precise ideological sense and its evaluative implications are not fully predictable without prior exposure.
Etymology
Color blindness comes from medicine: the words color and blindness make a picture of someone who is 'blind' to certain colors and so cannot tell them apart. So color blindness means an inability to see or distinguish some colors.