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YELLOW-BLUE COLOR BLINDNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does yellow-blue color blindness mean?
• YELLOW-BLUE COLOR BLINDNESS (noun)
The noun YELLOW-BLUE COLOR BLINDNESS has 1 sense:
1. confusion of yellow and blue
Familiarity information: YELLOW-BLUE COLOR BLINDNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• YELLOW-BLUE COLOR BLINDNESS (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Confusion of yellow and blue
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
yellow-blue color blindness; yellow-blue dichromacy
Hypernyms ("yellow-blue color blindness" is a kind of...):
dichromacy; dichromasy; dichromatism; dichromatopsia; dichromia (a deficiency of color vision in which the person can match any given hue by mixing only two other wavelengths of light (as opposed to the three wavelengths needed by people with normal color vision))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "yellow-blue color blindness"):
tetartanopia; yellow-blindness (a form of dichromacy characterized by lowered sensitivity to yellow light; so rare that its existence has been questioned)
blue-blindness; tritanopia (rare form of dichromacy characterized by a lowered sensitivity to blue light resulting in an inability to distinguish blue and yellow)
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