color vision

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   the normal ability to see colors

   Synonymschromatic visiontrichromacy

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Questions about color vision

What does color vision mean?

color vision means "the normal ability to see colors".

What is another word for color vision?

Close synonyms include chromatic vision, trichromacy. 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 vision a common word?

color vision 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.