Pronunciation: - ˌ bl ī nd
Function: adjective
Date: 1853
1 : affected with partial or total inability to distinguish one or more chromatic colors
2 : INSENSITIVE , OBLIVIOUS
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