color blindness

See also: colorblindness and color-blindness

English

Alternative forms

• color-blindness, colorblindness
• colour blindness, colour-blindness, colourblindness (British spelling)

Etymology

color blind + -ness or color + blindness

Noun

color blindness (countable and uncountable, plural color blindnesses) (American spelling)

1. (medicine, ophthalmology) Any of several medical conditions in which the physical ability to see colors is impaired, especially achromatopsia, Daltonism.
2. (figuratively) Indifference to a person's skin color or race.
   • 2003, Kimberly L. Ebert, "Demystifying Color-Blind Ideology", in C. Herring et al., Skin Deep: How Race and Complexion Matter in the "Color-Blind" Era, p. 1985:

     Despite the fact that race is embedded in American social life, "color blindness" has recently emerged as the dominant ideology of race.

Derived terms

• red-green color blindness / red-green colour blindness

Translations

condition in which the ability to see colors is impaired

• Arabic: عمى الألوان (ar) m (ʕaman al-ʔalwāna)
• Armenian: դալթոնիզմ (hy) (daltʻonizm)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܣܸܡܝܘܼܬ ܓܵܘܢܹ̈ܐ f (simyūt gāwnē)
• Asturian: daltonismu m
• Basque: daltonismo
• Belarusian: дальтанізм m (dalʹtanizm)
• Bengali: বর্ণান্ধতা (bornandhota)
• Bulgarian: далтонизъм (bg) m (daltonizǎm), цветна слепота f (cvetna slepota)
• Catalan: daltonisme (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 色盲 (sik¹ maang⁴)

  Eastern Min: 色盲 (sáik-màng)

  Hokkien: 色盲 (zh-min-nan) (sek-bông, siak-bông)

  Mandarin: 色盲 (zh) (sèmáng)

• Chuvash: дальтонизм (dalʹtonizm)
• Czech: barvoslepost f
• Danish: farveblindhed (da) c
• Dutch: kleurenblindheid (nl) f, daltonisme (nl) n
• Esperanto: daltonismo (eo), kolorblindeco
• Estonian: värvipimedus
• Faroese: litblindi n, litblindni n
• Finnish: värisokeus (fi)
• French: daltonisme (fr) m
• Galician: daltonismo m
• Georgian: დალტონიზმი (dalṭonizmi)
• German: Farbenblindheit (de) f
• Greek: αχρωματοψία (el) f (achromatopsía)
• Hebrew: עִוָּרוֹן צְבָעִים m (ivarón ts'va'ím)
• Hindi: वर्णान्धता (varṇāndhatā)
• Hungarian: színvakság (hu)
• Icelandic: litblinda f
• Ido: kolor-blindeso
• Indonesian: buta warna (id)
• Italian: daltonismo (it) m
• Japanese: 色盲 (ja) (しきもう, shikimō), (politically correct) 色覚異常 (ja) (しきかくいじょう, shikikaku ijō), (slight) 色弱 (ja) (しきじゃく, shikijaku)
• Kazakh: дальтонизм (daltonizm)
• Korean: 색맹(色盲) (saengmaeng)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: rengkorî m

• Kyrgyz: дальтонизм (daltonizm), түс тааныбоо (tüs taanıboo)
• Latvian: daltonismu, krāsu aklums m
• Lithuanian: daltonizmas m
• Macedonian: далтонизам m (daltonizam), бојно слепило n (bojno slepilo)
• Malay: buta warna
• Malayalam: വർണ്ണാന്ധത (vaṟṇṇāndhata)
• Nepali: रंग अन्धता (raṅga andhatā)
• Norwegian: fargeblindhet m
• Occitan: daltonisme (oc) m
• Odia: ବର୍ଣ୍ଣାନ୍ଧତା (barṇṇāndhatā)
• Persian: کوررنگی (fa) (kurrangi)
• Polish: daltonizm (pl) m, ślepota barw f, barwoślepota f
• Portuguese: daltonismo (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਰੰਗਾ ਦਾ ਅੰਨਾਪਣ (raṅgā dā annāpaṇ)
• Romanian: daltonism (ro) n, cecitate cromatică f
• Russian: дальтони́зм (ru) m (dalʹtonízm), цветовая слепота (ru) f (cvetovaja slepota)
• Scottish Gaelic: dath-dhalladh m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: далтонѝзам m

  Roman: daltonìzam (sh) m

• Slovak: farbosleposť (sk) f
• Slovene: daltonizem m, barvna slepota f
• Spanish: daltonismo (es) m
• Sundanese: lolong warna
• Swedish: färgblindhet (sv) c
• Tagalog: pagkabulag sa kulay, kabulagan sa kulay
• Tamil: நிறக்குருடு (niṟakkuruṭu)
• Tatar: дальтонизм (dal’tonizm)
• Telugu: వర్ణాంధత్వము (varṇāndhatvamu)
• Thai: ตาบอดสี (dtaa bòt sĕe)
• Turkish: renk körlüğü (tr)
• Ukrainian: дальтоні́зм m (dalʹtonízm), колірна сліпота f (kolirna slipota)
• Uzbek:

  Cyrillic: дальтонизм (uz)

  Roman: daltonizm (uz)

indifference to a person's skin color or race

• Dutch: kleurenblindheid (nl) f

See also

• Daltonism