Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A visual defect characterized by the inability to see as clearly in bright light as in dim light.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In pathology, a defect of sight in consequence of which distinct vision is possible only in artificial or dim light; day-blindness. The term is also used, however, to express exactly the opposite defect of vision. See
nyctalopia .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) A disease of the eyes, in consequence of which a person can see clearly or without pain only by daylight or a strong artificial light; day sight.
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- noun medicine The inability to see clearly in bright light;
day blindness
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun inability to see clearly in bright light
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[New Latin hēmeralōpia, from Greek hēmeralōps, suffering from hemeralopia : hēmera, day + alaos, blind + ōps, eye; see nyctalopia.]
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qroqqa commented on the word hemeralopia
An autantonym, for those of you who collect 'em. This contains the element -al- "blind", so properly means "blindness by day"; but this element was neglected and it was treated as "seeing by day", synonymous with 'nyctalopia' "blindness by night". Except that the -al- was sometimes ignored in that too, so 'nyctalopia' was also used for "seeing by night".
August 20, 2008