visual defect

Questions about visual defect

What does visual defect mean?

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

What is another word for visual defect?

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

visual 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.