Achromatopia

/ˌækroʊməˈtoʊpiə/ noun

A condition of complete color blindness where a person can only see in shades of gray, also called monochromacy.

From Greek 'achromatos' (colorless) + 'opia' (vision or condition of seeing). This medical term emerged in the 19th century to describe the rarest form of color vision deficiency.

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