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visual impairment vs color vision deficiency

color vision deficiency vs visual impairment

visual impairment and color vision deficiency both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
visual impairment Yes No No No
color vision deficiency Yes No No No
As nouns, color vision deficiency is a hyponym of visual impairment; that is, color vision deficiency is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than visual impairment:
  • visual impairment: impairment of the sense of sight
  • color vision deficiency: genetic inability to distinguish differences in hue
Other hyponyms of visual impairment include amaurosis, amblyopia, ametropia, aniseikonia, anorthopia, aphakia, blindness, cecity, sightlessness, color blindness, 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 vision deficiency (noun)
impairment of the sense of sight genetic inability to distinguish differences in hue
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