color-blind
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col·or–blind

adjective \-ˌblīnd\

Definition of COLOR-BLIND

1
: affected with partial or total inability to distinguish one or more chromatic colors
3
: not influenced by differences of race <tried to get the welfare establishment … to abandon its color–blind policy — D. P. Moynihan>; especially : free from racial prejudice <a white man with an invisible black skin in a color–blind community — James Farmer>
color blindness noun

First Known Use of COLOR-BLIND

1853

col·or–blind

adjective \-ˌblīnd\   (Medical Dictionary)

Medical Definition of COLOR–BLIND

: affected with partial or total inability to distinguish one or more chromatic colors
color blindness noun

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