deuteranopia

What does deuteranopia mean?

deuteranopia means "dichromacy characterized by a lowered sensitivity to green light resulting in an inability to distinguish green and purplish-red".

How many syllables are in deuteranopia?

deuteranopia has 7 syllables and divides as de-u-te-ra-no-pi-a under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for deuteranopia?

Close synonyms include Daltonism, green-blindness. 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 deuteranopia a common word?

deuteranopia 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for deuteranopia come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.