Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A supposed form of color-blindness in which the subject is unable to distinguish the fundamental color blue.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun inability to distinguish blue and yellow.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun rare form of dichromacy characterized by a lowered sensitivity to blue light resulting in an inability to distinguish blue and yellow
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word blue-blindness.
Examples
-
The earliest and most prominent of the _general symptoms_ are severe paroxysmal headache, optic neuritis, with choked disc and limitation of the field for blue, amounting sometimes to blue-blindness
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.