day blindness

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   inability to see clearly in bright light

   Synonymshemeralopia

   Broadervisual impairment

Questions about day blindness

What does day blindness mean?

day blindness means "inability to see clearly in bright light".

What is another word for day blindness?

Close synonyms include hemeralopia. 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 day blindness a common word?

day 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.