Etymology

acritochromacy

A1C3R1I1T1O1C3H4R1O1M3A1C3Y4

Today it means: Color blindness, achromatopsia. Full definition →

Ancient Greek ἄκριτος
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromἄκριτος“indistinguishable”
  2. English todayacritochromacy

From Ancient Greek ἄκριτος (ákritos, “indistinguishable”) + χρῶμα (khrôma, “color”) + -acy.

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekἄκριτος all →

acritarch

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.