tunnel visionnoun [ U ]
uk/ˌtʌn.əl ˈvɪʒ.ən/us/ˌtʌn.əl ˈvɪʒ.ən/tunnel vision noun [ U ] (SEEING)
a medical condition that makes someone see only things that are directly in front of them
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Eyesight, glasses & lenses
- (as) blind as a bat idiom
- 20/20 vision
- age-related macular degeneration
- AMD
- Balint's syndrome
- blepharospasm
- blind side
- blindly
- ciliary
- cross-eyed
- dispensing optician
- horn-rimmed
- lorgnette
- nearsighted
- ophthalmologist
- optometrist
- safety glasses
- sightless
- spectacle
- twenty-twenty vision
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tunnel vision noun [ U ] (THINKING)
disapproving the fact that someone considers only one part of a problem or situation, or holds a single opinion rather than having a more general understanding
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Narrow-minded
- be set in your ways idiom
- be wearing blinders idiom
- be wearing blinkers idiom
- blinkered
- hidebound
- insular
- intolerance
- intolerant
- myopic
- narrow-minded
- parochial
- petty
- prim
- set
- short-sighted
- small-minded
- strait-laced
- unreconstructed
- unthinking
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