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visual impairment vs colour vision deficiency

colour vision deficiency vs visual impairment

visual impairment and colour vision deficiency both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
visual impairment Yes No No No
colour vision deficiency Yes No No No
As nouns, colour vision deficiency is a hyponym of visual impairment; that is, colour vision deficiency is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than visual impairment:
  • visual impairment: impairment of the sense of sight
  • colour 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, color vision deficiency, colour blindness, 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 vision deficiency (noun)
impairment of the sense of sight genetic inability to distinguish differences in hue
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