colour vision deficiency

Questions about colour vision deficiency

What does colour vision deficiency mean?

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

What is another word for colour vision deficiency?

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

colour 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.