GREEN-BLINDNESS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Dichromacy characterized by a lowered sensitivity to green light resulting in an inability to distinguish green and purplish-red

Synonyms:

Daltonism; deuteranopia; green-blindness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("green-blindness" is a kind of...):

red-green color blindness; red-green colour blindness; red-green dichromacy (confusion of red and green)

Derivation:

green-blind (inability to see the color green or to distinguish green and purplish-red)

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