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face-blind

face-blind adjective: having face blindness (prosopagnosia); unable to recognize faces.

Adjective

face-blind (comparative more face-blind, superlative most face-blind)

  1. Having face blindness (prosopagnosia); unable to recognize faces.
    • Few weeks went by when he didn&'t receive letters from anxious readers struggling with some attenuated form of failing to recognize old acquaintances. Some were consoled by Weber's bombshell: a simple neurological quirk that revealed how everyone suffered from a form of prosopagnosia. Even normal...2007, Richard Powers, The Echo Maker: A Novel, →ISBN, page 150
    • The face-blind person will remember the hair, the glasses, and maybe even the mannerisms, but not the facial features of the other person. It seems to affect about 60 percent of all adults with AS. Medical researcher, Ingo Kennerknecht, assuming that prosopagnosia was rare, tested a group of 689...2007, Suzanne C. Lawton, Asperger Syndrome: Natural Steps Toward a Better Life, →ISBN, page 41

Examples of face-blind in a sentence

  • The face-blind person will remember the hair, the glasses, and maybe even the mannerisms, but not the facial features of the other person.2007, Suzanne C. Lawton, Asperger Syndrome: Natural Steps Toward a Better Life, →ISBN, page 41:
  • Researchers have used face-blind volunteers to explore this question.2014, Guy Brook-Hart, Simon Haines, Complete Advanced Student's Book with Answers with CD-ROM, →ISBN, page 206:
  • Formerly blind people are often face-blind or unable to decipher emotion from facial expression.2015, Ellyn Kaschak, Sight Unseen: Gender and Race Through Blind Eyes, →ISBN, page 5:

Forms of face-blind

comparativemore face-blind
superlativemost face-blind
alternative formfaceblind

Questions about face-blind

What does face-blind mean?
Face-blind means having face blindness (prosopagnosia); unable to recognize faces.
How do you use face-blind in a sentence?
The face-blind person will remember the hair, the glasses, and maybe even the mannerisms, but not the facial features of the other person.
What part of speech is face-blind?
Face-blind is an adjective.

Words near face-blind in the dictionary

  1. face washer
  2. face washers
  3. face worker
  4. face-ache
  5. face-aches
  6. face-blind
  7. face-brick
  8. face-bricks
  9. face-centered
  10. face-down
  11. face-downs

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