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daltonism (DAWL-tuh-niz-em) noun
Color blindness, especially the inability to distinguish between red and green. [After John Dalton (1766-1844), English chemist and physicist, who gave us Dalton's Law of Partial Pressures. He studied his own color blindness as well.] "He (Theodore R. Weeks) refers to 'national daltonism: the extreme difficulty nationalists had... in perceiving and appreciating the viewpoints or needs of members of other nationalities." Stephen D. Corrsin, Nation and State in Late Imperial Russia (book review), Canadian Slavonic Papers (Ottawa), Sep-Dec 1999. This week's theme: eponyms. ............................................................................ We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom. -Michel Montaigne, essayist (1533-1592) Feeling information overload? Sign off a few mailing lists. If you wish to unsubscribe from AWAD, send a blank message to wsmith@wordsmith.org with the word unsubscribe in the subject line of your message. Of course, we'd rather you stay with us. After all, it is only a `word' a day. (-: Pronunciation: http://wordsmith.org/words/daltonism.wav http://wordsmith.org/words/daltonism.ram
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