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Noun: color vision
Usage: US (elsewhere: colour vision)
  1. The normal ability to see colors
    "The artist's exceptional color vision allowed him to distinguish subtle shades in his paintings";
    - chromatic vision, trichromacy, colour vision [Brit, Cdn]

Derived forms: color visions

Type of: sight, vision, visual modality, visual sense

Encyclopedia: Color vision