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Synonyms for color blindness


Grammar : Noun



Définition of color blindness

Origin :
  • 1844, replacing Daltonism (after English chemist John Dalton, 1766-1844, who published a description of it in 1794); in figurative use, with reference to race or ethnicity, attested from 1866, American English. Related: color blind (adj.).
  • noun inability to distinguish one or more colors
Example sentences :
  • This idea is given corroboration by some facts of color blindness.
  • Extract from : « Physics » by Willis Eugene Tower
  • It must not be assumed that every one has the same sense of color, otherwise there would be no color blindness.
  • Extract from : « Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887 » by Various
  • Color blindness, or at least certain kinds of color blindness, appear to follow the same scheme.
  • Extract from : « A Critique of the Theory of Evolution » by Thomas Hunt Morgan
  • There is a very important defect in vision which should be detected as early in life as possible, and that is color blindness.
  • Extract from : « Scientific American Supplement No. 822 » by Various
  • Until the year 1853, very little was known about color blindness, and much less written about it.
  • Extract from : « Scientific American Supplement No. 822 » by Various
  • An interesting example is the common type of color blindness known as Daltonism.
  • Extract from : « Physiology » by Ernest G. Martin
  • The subject of color blindness has received much attention because of its practical importance in the affairs of our daily lives.
  • Extract from : « Elementary Color » by Milton Bradley
  • He seems to have initiated the theory of color blindness that was later developed by Helmholtz.
  • Extract from : « A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II) » by Augustus De Morgan
  • Color blindness seems to be an instance of the conspicuous absence of such a unit characteristic.
  • Extract from : « Vocational Psychology: Its Problems and Methods » by Harry L. Hollingworth

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