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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. See night blindness.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Night-blindness.
  2. n. Day-blindness.

Wiktionary

  1. n. medicine The inability to see clearly in dim light; night blindness

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A disease of the eye, in consequence of which the patient can see well in a faint light or at twilight, but is unable to see during the day or in a strong light; day blindness.
  2. n. See moonblink.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. inability to see clearly in dim light; due to a deficiency of vitamin A or to a retinal disorder

Etymologies

  1. Late Latin nyctalōpia, from Greek nuktalōps, night-blind : nux, nukt-, night; see nekw-t- in Indo-European roots + alaos, blind + ōps, ōp-, eye; see okw- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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