color-blind
Americanadjective
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Ophthalmology. pertaining to or affected with color blindness.
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Photography. (of an emulsion) sensitive only to blue, violet, and ultraviolet rays.
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showing or characterized by freedom from racial bias; not influenced by skin color.
Etymology
Origin of color-blind
First recorded in 1850–55
Example Sentences
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This critic is all for so-called color-blind casting; in addition to promoting employment, it invigorates the work.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 28, 2025
There is no such thing as a color-blind country, said Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson in her strong dissent: “deeming race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life.”
From Scientific American • Jul. 6, 2023
Perhaps "Bridgeton" eschews the same sort of criticism because it focuses on female empowerment or because it reinvigorates the historical romance through devices such as color-blind casting and anachronistic music.
From Salon • Dec. 31, 2022
“They taught their children the same color-blind values that Elder has advocated for decades.”
From Washington Times • Sep. 13, 2021
What if he’d been color-blind and couldn’t even tell the difference?
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
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