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color blindness vs dichromatopsia

dichromatopsia vs color blindness

color blindness and dichromatopsia both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
color blindness Yes No No No
dichromatopsia Yes No No No
As nouns, dichromatopsia is a hyponym of color blindness; that is, dichromatopsia is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than color blindness:
  • color blindness: genetic inability to distinguish differences in hue
  • dichromatopsia: 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)
color blindness (noun) dichromatopsia (noun)
genetic inability to distinguish differences in hue 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)
Difference between color blindness and dichromatopsia

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