color blindness

Questions about color blindness

What does color blindness mean?

color blindness means "genetic inability to distinguish differences in hue".

What is another word for color blindness?

Close synonyms include colour blindness, color vision deficiency, colour vision deficiency. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is color blindness a common word?

color blindness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.