blue-blindness (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the word *blue-blindness*:
NOUN	state	blue-blindness, tritanopia	rare form of dichromacy characterized by a lowered sensitivity to blue light resulting in an inability to distinguish blue and yellow

English > *blue-blindness*: 1 sense > noun 1, state
Meaning	Rare form of dichromacy characterized by a lowered sensitivity to blue light resulting in an inability to distinguish blue and yellow.
Synonym	tritanopia
Broader	yellow-blue dichromacy, yellow-blue color blindness	confusion of yellow and blue
Spanish	tritanopia, tritanopía
Catalan	tritanopia, tritanòpsia
Adjectives	blue-blind	inability to see the color blue or to distinguish the colors blue and yellow

HyperDic: blue-blindness