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visual impairment vs color blindness

color blindness vs visual impairment

visual impairment and color blindness both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
visual impairment Yes No No No
color blindness Yes No No No
As nouns, color blindness is a hyponym of visual impairment; that is, color blindness is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than visual impairment:
  • visual impairment: impairment of the sense of sight
  • color blindness: genetic inability to distinguish differences in hue
Other hyponyms of visual impairment include amaurosis, amblyopia, ametropia, aniseikonia, anorthopia, aphakia, blindness, cecity, sightlessness, color vision deficiency, colour blindness, colour vision deficiency, diplopia, double vision, day blindness, hemeralopia, hemianopia, hemianopsia, quadrantanopia, metamorphopsia, moon blindness, night blindness, nyctalopia, photoretinitis, detached retina, detachment of the retina, retinal detachment, scotoma, tunnel vision, xanthopsia.
visual impairment (noun) color blindness (noun)
impairment of the sense of sight genetic inability to distinguish differences in hue
Difference between visual impairment and color blindness

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