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dichromatopsia vs color blindness

color blindness vs dichromatopsia

dichromatopsia and color blindness both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
dichromatopsia Yes No No No
color blindness Yes No No No
As nouns, color blindness is a hypernym of dichromatopsia; that is, color blindness is a word with a broader meaning than dichromatopsia:
  • 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: genetic inability to distinguish differences in hue
Other hypernyms of dichromatopsia include color vision deficiency, colour blindness, colour vision deficiency.
dichromatopsia (noun) color blindness (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
Difference between dichromatopsia and color blindness

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