😵 Vision dimming 🖥️ Inactive display 🖥️ To disable visually

grayout

1 9.6

A brief loss of vision when things look dim or grey

noun
/ˈɡreɪˌaʊt/

Specialized

: pérdida temporal de visión

While climbing the steep hill, Jenna had a moment of grayout, feeling dizzy as her vision dimmed.

Examples

The patient reported experiencing a grayout during the procedure when her blood pressure dropped suddenly.
After standing up too quickly, he experienced a brief grayout that made him see stars.
She stared at the life-support systems monitor while her brain revived from the grayout.

Fiction book (1992)

Antonyms

clarity

7 2.7

How easy it is to see through something like clean water

How Dim

blackout

43 6.0

grayout

Specialized

1 9.6

dimmed

4 2.5

to blur

3 3.7

Surface Forms

grayout singular

grayouts plural

Morphology

grayout = gray (semi-transparent) = out + gray

The vision sense extends the idea of something 'graying out' into temporary dimming or loss of sight, so the components help but the technical meaning is specialized. [Postprocessing: moved 'out' from base_words to prefix]

Etymology

Grayout uses gray ('a dull colour') and out ('fading away'), like when your sight briefly fades to grey, so a grayout is a short dimming or partial loss of vision.