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Colour-blind

adjective

Unable to distinguish one or more chromatic colors. Synonym: color-blind.

Unprejudiced about race. Synonyms: color-blind, nonracist.

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Etymology of 'Colour-blind'

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"Colour-blind" Quotes from Famous Books

... brightness corresponds less with a green of less brightness than with a blue of the same brightness. In order to bring all greens together the Chukches thus require to learn a new abstraction". Of 300 persons who were examined, 273 had a fully developed colour-sense, nine were completely colour-blind, and eighteen incompletely colour-blind, or gave ...

— The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II • A.E. Nordenskieold

... intercrossing" is practically at an end. Even the famous puzzle of sex-limited inheritance is solved, at all events in its more regular manifestations, and we know now how it is brought about that the normal sisters of a colour-blind man can transmit the colour-blindness while his normal brothers cannot ...

— Darwin and Modern Science • A.C. Seward and Others

Words linked to "Colour-blind" : impartial, unsighted, unprejudiced, blind, color blindness