protanopia

1. 1.

   dichromacy characterized by lowered sensitivity to long wavelengths of light resulting in an inability to distinguish red and purplish blue

   Synonymsred-blindness

   Broaderred-green dichromacy

Other forms of protanopia

plural

protanopias·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about protanopia

What does protanopia mean?

protanopia means "dichromacy characterized by lowered sensitivity to long wavelengths of light resulting in an inability to distinguish red and purplish blue".

How many syllables are in protanopia?

protanopia has 5 syllables: pro-ta-no-pi-a. The stress falls on "no".

What is another word for protanopia?

Close synonyms include red-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 protanopia a common word?

protanopia 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.