red-green color blindness

noun

A common vision deficiency where a person has difficulty distinguishing between shades of red and green due to a defect in the eye's cone cells.

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red-green dichromacyred-green colour blindness
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Meanings

nounred-green color blindness (usually uncountable, plural red-green color blindnesses)

plural red-green color blindnesses · alternative red-green colour blindness

  1. uncountableusuallymedicineA common vision deficiency where a person has difficulty distinguishing between shades of red and green due to a defect in the eye's cone cells.

Synonyms & antonyms

nounconfusion of red and green

Similar
red-green dichromacyred-green colour blindness
Broader
dichromacydichromatismdichromatopsia

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

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MLA

“red-green color blindness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/red-green%20color%20blindness. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “red-green color blindness,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/red-green%20color%20blindness.

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