figural blindness

1. 1.

   inability to see shapes and contours

   Broaderblindness

Questions about figural blindness

What does figural blindness mean?

figural blindness means "inability to see shapes and contours".

Is figural blindness a common word?

figural 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.