Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An area of diminished vision within the visual field.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A defect in the visual field.
Wiktionary
- n. an area of impaired or lost vision within a field of vision otherwise in a good (or at least healthy) state
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Med.) Scotomy.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an isolated area of diminished vision within the visual field
Etymologies
- From Late Latin scotoma, from Ancient Greek σκότωμα (skótōma), from σκότος (skótos, "darkness"). (Wiktionary)
- New Latin scotōma, from Late Latin, dim sight, from Greek skotōma, dizziness, from skotoun, to darken, from skotos, darkness. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The neurological term for this is scotoma, which is Greek for “blind spot.””
“We the Muslims need the Palestinians to remain locked in their plight so that they might continue to serve as the Ummah's scotoma (a blindspot) which literally prevents us from seeing our own more immediate distresses, distresses which might demand our attention and perhaps even require societal interventions.”
The Huffington Post: Qanta Ahmed, MD: Israel and the Flotilla: On the Dangers of a Binary View
“We the Muslims need the Palestinians to remain locked in their plight so that they might continue to serve as the Ummah's scotoma a blindspot which literally prevents us from seeing our own more immediate distresses, distresses which might demand our attention and perhaps even require societal interventions .”
The Huffington Post: Qanta Ahmed, MD: Israel and the Flotilla: On the Dangers of a Binary View
“Do you like what you now hear using real words (oldspeak) and what you now see putting aside scotoma and taking off those rose-colored glasses?”
Deane Waldman: July 4th Gift: Freedom from Newspeak, Scotoma, & Rose-Colored Glasses
“That is what you expect and therefore that is what you see (scotoma).”
Deane Waldman: July 4th Gift: Freedom from Newspeak, Scotoma, & Rose-Colored Glasses
“Now that you are free of newspeak, scotoma, and see clearly, you can grasp the probable results from ObamaCare, from adding a Government Insurance option to the mind-numbing morass of insurance choices and limitless paperwork.”
Deane Waldman: July 4th Gift: Freedom from Newspeak, Scotoma, & Rose-Colored Glasses
“Read the scintillating details of my scotoma here.”
“A patient, then aged 21, suffered three years ago from a scotoma almost central; and was first seen six months after that with a macular choroidal atrophy and abnormal pigmentation.”
“As has been shown by Bjeraum, the blind spot corresponding with the optic disc is enlarged in glaucoma, a relative scotoma often connecting it with the blind nasal portion of the field either above or below the horizontal meridian (Straub).”
“English ophthalmologist of his time, William Mackenzie (1791-1868; choroiditis, accommodation, asthenopy, scotoma).”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘scotoma’.
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phrontistery-s
from phrontistery.info
sabaton, sabbatarian, sabbulonarium, sabelline, sabin, sable, sabliere, sabot, sabretache, sabulous, saburration, saccade and 1593 more...
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color, light & sight
albedo, chromatography, chromatic, tone, penumbra, superluminal, diaphanous, iridescent, amethyst, opalescent, celadon, lapis and 35 more...
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All The Words
I enjoy collecting words, for I have no fear of them ever running out.
tatterdemalion, panopticon, idioglossia, hypnagogue, hypnopomp, defenestration, anacoluthon, scofflaw, affront, edifying, palimpsest, naufrage and 475 more...
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dark and bright words of shine and fi...
scotophil, scotoma, scotia, shed, shadow, shade, scone, whiting, edelweiss, light, lightning, lucina and 349 more...
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wreckingball's Words
reprehensible, problematize, crepuscular, deleterious, pestilent, strumpet, draggletail, interrobang, meretricious, systematize, schadenfreude, capricious and 443 more...
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the omnibus
preponderance, idioglossia, acumen, heteronym, flux, anacoluthon, metonymy, impetus, constellation, exegesis, revelatory, cloistered and 877 more...
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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DamianBurke's list
...a list...
anthropomorphism, zealot, pontificate, behest, pathogenic, polyglot, diphenhydramine e..., faustian, philistine, arpeggio, repine, palindrome and 76 more...
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pretentious words i hope to use in ar...
getting ready for grad school
legerdemain, autoantonymic, eschatology, scotoma, obliterative, axiology, bugaboo, diachronic, bathetic, corporeality, syncretism
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Lowry
nutant, meed, donga, mephitic, punk, caliginous, cauchemar, horripilation, hyacinthine, corposant, counterscarp, garboon and 65 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for scotoma.
yarb ...a genius if ever there was one, the possessor, together with the appalling insight, of all the scotomas and quirks of such dedicated powers...
- Malcolm Lowry, October Ferry to Gabriola Jul 30, 2008