visual impairment

Questions about visual impairment

What does visual impairment mean?

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

What is another word for visual impairment?

Close synonyms include visual defect, 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 impairment a common word?

visual impairment 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.