dichromatism vs colour vision deficiency

colour vision deficiency vs dichromatism

dichromatism and colour vision deficiency both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
dichromatism	Yes	No	No	No
colour vision deficiency	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, colour vision deficiency is a hypernym of dichromatism; that is, colour vision deficiency is a word with a broader meaning than dichromatism:

dichromatism: 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)
colour vision deficiency: genetic inability to distinguish differences in hue

Other hypernyms of dichromatism include color blindness, color vision deficiency, colour blindness.

dichromatism (noun)	colour vision deficiency (noun)
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)	genetic inability to distinguish differences in hue

dichromatism vs colour vision deficiency

dichromatism and colour vision deficiency both are nouns.

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