moon blindness

Questions about moon blindness

What does moon blindness mean?

moon blindness means "inability to see clearly in dim light; due to a deficiency of vitamin A or to a retinal disorder". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for moon blindness?

Close synonyms include nyctalopia, night blindness, mooneye. 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 moon blindness a common word?

moon 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.