tunnel vision

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   visual impairment involving a loss of peripheral vision

   Broadervisual impairment

Questions about tunnel vision

What does tunnel vision mean?

tunnel vision means "visual impairment involving a loss of peripheral vision".

Is tunnel vision a common word?

tunnel vision 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.