monochromacy
- noun
- /ˌmɒnəˈkroʊməsi/
- Specialized
:
monocromacía
- Due to his monochromacy, he could only see the world in shades of gray.
Examples
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Her monochromacy made it difficult for her to distinguish between ripe and unripe fruit.
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People with monochromacy experience a unique perspective, relying on brightness rather than color.
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I mean, no police department that I've ever heard of has piles of cash money sitting around simply to dole out to hapless, billfold-displacing citizens, and we were in plenty of situations where his supposed monochromacy would have been easily disproved.
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Synonyms
A condition in which a person sees only shades of gray
A condition in which a person can only see shades of light and dark
A condition in which a person sees the world only in shades of gray
People with complete color blindness see only shades of gray
A condition in which a person cannot see colors and only sees shades of gray
A lack of color in vision or objects
Antonyms
- Specialized
Seeing many colors normally because the eyes have three kinds of color cells
How Colorful
Surface Forms
Morphology
monochromacy = monochrome (opaque) = mono + chrom + acy
The components suggest a one-colour condition, but the word is a specialized medical term for complete colour blindness, so the meaning is not fully predictable from the parts.
Etymology
The word monochromacy comes from the parts mono- 'one' and -chrom- 'color', like the word monochrome for a black-and-white picture. So monochromacy means 'one color' vision, usually seeing only shades of gray, which is why people with it cannot tell colors apart.
