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visual impairment vs colour blindness

colour blindness vs visual impairment

visual impairment and colour blindness both are nouns.

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

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