colour-blind

/'kʌləblaind/

Thân thiện

A teacher explains that being colour-blind means treating everyone equally.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Unable to distinguish certain colors: Describes a person whose vision is deficient in perceiving differences between some colors, especially reds and greens or blues and yellows.
   • Unprejudiced regarding race: Describes a person, policy, or attitude that does not discriminate on the basis of skin color or ethnic origin.

Usage Examples

• Adjective (Visual Condition):
  • He is colour-blind and cannot tell the difference between red and green traffic lights.
  • Colour-blind individuals often use special software to help distinguish colors on charts.
• Adjective (Social Attitude):
  • The company promotes a colour-blind hiring policy, focusing solely on qualifications.
  • She advocates for a colour-blind society where people are judged by their character.

Advanced Usage

• "Colour-blind to": Metaphorically indifferent or insensitive to a particular distinction or issue.
  • The manager was colour-blind to the office politics, treating all complaints equally.
• In legal and sociological contexts, "colour-blind" can describe constitutional interpretations or ideologies that advocate for non-recognition of race in law and policy.

Variants and Related Words

• Color-blind: The standard American English spelling.
• Colour blindness (noun): The condition of being colour-blind.
  • Colour blindness is more common in men.
• Daltonism (noun): A term for red-green colour blindness.
• Colour-blindly (adverb): In a colour-blind manner.
  • The law was applied colour-blindly.

Synonyms

• Achromatopsic (medical): Pertaining to complete color blindness.
• Non-discriminatory: Not making unfair distinctions, especially regarding race.
• Impartial: Treating all rivals or disputants equally.

Antonyms

• Discriminatory: Making or showing an unfair prejudice.
• Chauvinistic: Displaying excessive or prejudiced loyalty.
• Racist: Showing or feeling discrimination or prejudice against people of other races.

Related Phrases

• Colour-blind approach: A method or policy that intentionally ignores racial categories.
  • Their colour-blind approach to education aims to treat all students identically.
• Colour-blind justice: The principle that the legal system should operate without regard to race.
  • The judge was committed to the ideal of colour-blind justice.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. unprejudiced about race
2. unable to distinguish one or more chromatic colors

Từ đồng nghĩa

• color-blind
• nonracist