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Daltonism

noun

Dichromacy characterized by a lowered sensitivity to green light resulting in an inability to distinguish green and purplish-red. Synonyms: deuteranopia, green-blindness.

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... that the landlords see the question through a differently tinted medium. They entertain an idea that the land is their property, and, like any other commodity, should be let or sold to a person who can pay for it. Strict and downright "landlordism," as it is called, as if it were a disease like "Daltonism," does not see things through a medium charged with the national colour, and Miss Gardiner is a true type of downright landlordism such as would not be complained of in England, but in Ireland is ...

— Disturbed Ireland - Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. • Bernard H. Becker

... see except under a strong light: a case has been recorded, by M. Cunier, of this latter defect having affected eighty-five members of the same family during six generations. The singular incapacity of distinguishing colours, which has been called DALTONISM, is notoriously hereditary, and has been traced through five generations, in which it was ...

— The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication - Volume I • Charles Darwin

Words linked to "Daltonism" : red-green colour blindness, red-green color blindness, red-green dichromacy