[col.or-blind] adj (1854) 1: affected with partial or total inability to distinguish one or more chromatic colors
2: insensitive, oblivious
3: not recognizing differences of race "tried to get the welfare establishment ... to abandon its ~ policy --D. P. Moynihan"; esp: free from racial prejudice "a white man with an invisible black skin in a ~ community --James Farmer" -- color blindness n