vision defect

Questions about vision defect

What does vision defect mean?

vision defect means "impairment of the sense of sight".

What is another word for vision defect?

Close synonyms include visual impairment, visual defect, visual disorder. 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 vision defect a common word?

vision defect 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.