colourblindness
colourblindness is the alternative form of color blindness.
Meaning of color blindness
Noun
color blindness (countable and uncountable, plural color blindnesses)
- Any of several medical conditions in which the physical ability to see colors is impaired, especially achromatopsia or Daltonism.
- 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 colourblindness
- What is colourblindness the alternative form of?
- Colourblindness is the alternative form of color blindness.
Words near colourblindness in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: colourblindness (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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