colour blindness
- a word derived from colour-blind.
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It's estimated that about 3 million people living in the UK are affected by colour blindness, according to Colour Blind Awareness.
From BBC ● May 8, 2025
Manchester had been steadily attracting scientific prestige after John Dalton pioneered studies in atomic theory and colour blindness, while fellow student James Joule became a household name after his work in energy conservation.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2023
She compares this well meaning wish to be inclusive with claims of colour blindness: blackness and whiteness are different, she told the audience to huge cheers at the event with Eddo-Lodge.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 28, 2018
The sensor was originally devised to help him counter a rare form of colour blindness called achromatopsia, which affects one in 33,000 people and means he sees the world in greys.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 14, 2015
Colour blindness usually unsuspected; unconsciousness of high intellectual gifts; of peculiarities of mental imagery; heredity of colour blindness in Quakers; Young and Dalton.
From Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development by Galton, Francis, Sir
