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colour-blindness

colour-blindness is the alternative form of color blindness.

Meaning of color blindness

Noun

color blindness (countable and uncountable, plural color blindnesses)

  1. (US) Any of several medical conditions in which the physical ability to see colors is impaired, especially achromatopsia or Daltonism.
  2. (US, figuratively) An indifference to a person's skin color or race.
    • 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

Questions about colour-blindness

What is colour-blindness the alternative form of?
Colour-blindness is the alternative form of color blindness.

Words near colour-blindness in the dictionary

  1. colour wash
  2. colour wheel
  3. colour wheels
  4. colour'd
  5. colour-blind
  6. colour-blindness
  7. colour-code
  8. colour-coded
  9. colour-codes
  10. colour-coding
  11. colour-coordinate

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Adapted from Wiktionary: colour-blindness (page history and authors); color blindness (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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