color vision deficiency

Questions about color vision deficiency

What does color vision deficiency mean?

color vision deficiency means "genetic inability to distinguish differences in hue".

What is another word for color vision deficiency?

Close synonyms include color blindness, colour blindness, 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 vision deficiency a common word?

color vision deficiency 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.