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ˈcolour-blind, a.
Unable to see certain colours; unable to discriminate between individual colours, or shades of colour.
(The strict meaning ought to be ‘blind to colour’ as a whole; but as this rarely exists (except in the case of the totally blind), the term is applied with much laxity to any constitutional inability to discriminate between colours, the common type being inability to distinguish the red and the green rays of the spectrum from each other.)
1854Mackenzie Dis. Eye (ed. 4) 948 It seems probable that yellow glasses will prove of use to colour-blind persons. 1866Huxley Phys. ix. §8 Such colour-blind persons..are unable to distinguish between the leaves of the cherry-tree and its fruit. 1878Browning La Saisiaz 39 Here's my neighbour colour-blind, Eyes like mine to all appearance.
b. fig. Taking no note of differences in racial colour, in sex, etc.
1865Commonwealth (Boston, U.S.) 18 Feb., A government color-blind; no distinction of race in the camp or the senate. 1888Pall Mall G. 17 Sept. 4/1 The National Association of Journalists..agreed that their body should be colour-blind as to sex. 1890Ibid. 15 May 3/1 Neither in the Dutch republics nor in the English colonies is the law absolutely colour-blind as between Black and White. |