daltonism

IPA: dˈɔɫtʌnɪzʌm

Root Word: Daltonism

(medicine, pathology) Inability or defective ability to perceive or distinguish certain colors, especially red-green color blindness.
Achromatopsia.
Alternative letter-case form of Daltonism [(medicine, pathology) Inability or defective ability to perceive or distinguish certain colors, especially red-green color blindness.]

Examples of "daltonism" in Sentences

a victim of daltonism -- in other words, colour-blind!
The DDB agency uses daltonism as an excuse to communicate a concept full of emotion.
"Theodore R. Weeks refers to 'national daltonism: the extreme difficulty nationalists had ... in perceiving and appreciating the viewpoints or needs of members of other nationalities."
Red-green colorblindness is called "daltonisme" daltonism in English, and they all come from the name of English physicist John Dalton, who studied and described the condition at the end of the 18th century.
Red-green colorblindness is called "daltonisme" (daltonism in English), and they all come from the name of English physicist John Dalton, who studied and described the condition at the end of the 18th century.
In 2006, Pluto's status was downgraded to that of a Charles Lindbergh (1902-1974): the first aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic; flight pioneer Ludwig Prandtl (1875-1953), father of aerodynamics, shared this birth date daltonism