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Definitions for tunnel vision
tun·nel vi·sion

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. tunnel visionnoun

    visual impairment involving a loss of peripheral vision

Wiktionary

  1. tunnel visionnoun

    A restricted field of vision as the result of looking through some type of object or a medical condition.

  2. tunnel visionnoun

    To focus one's attention on one specific item or event, to the exclusion of everything else.; a one-track mind

Wikipedia

  1. Tunnel vision

    Tunnel vision is the loss of peripheral vision with retention of central vision, resulting in a constricted circular tunnel-like field of vision.

ChatGPT

  1. tunnel vision

    Tunnel vision is a visual impairment or phenomenon where a person loses peripheral vision and only sees objects directly in front of them, as though they are looking through a tunnel. This can be a symptom related to health conditions like glaucoma or may occur temporarily due to factors like stress or extreme focus. It can also metaphorically describe a narrow or limited perspective, where an individual only focuses on a single issue or outcome and is oblivious to other possibilities or views.

Wikidata

  1. Tunnel vision

    Tunnel vision is the loss of peripheral vision with retention of central vision, resulting in a constricted circular tunnel-like field of vision.

Editors Contribution

  1. tunnel vision

    Tunnel vision.. pretend Pretending nothing ever happened and moving forward like it it erases it instead of acknowledged information on the subject.


    Submitted by anonymous on July 17, 2019  

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of tunnel vision in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of tunnel vision in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of tunnel vision in a Sentence

  1. Warren Frost:

    It seems like there is just such tunnel vision in Portales and Clovis, they're hell-bent to do this project regardless of whether it makes sense and I don't understand that.

  2. Joshua Jones:

    Adrenaline and tunnel vision are crazy things, you get what you're doing done, and then later you realize what's happened.

  3. Alla Wagner:

    How will moving here change someone's life ? Why would they enjoy cutting the grass ? Why would they love being here ? I don't want to have tunnel vision. I want someone to tug on my heart strings.

  4. Shawn Armbrust:

    Everyone involved in this case school officials, police, prosecutors, jurors, the media, and the community rushed to judgment and allowed their tunnel vision to obscure obvious problems with the evidence.

  5. Allison Navis:

    We're seeing a lot of different neurological symptoms in these patients, i think it's important to get a broad history to try and see if there's a larger diagnosis that might emerge, instead of getting too much tunnel vision on one specific symptom.


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