Chromatopsia
Chromatopsia is sometimes known as chromatic vision.
Chromatopsia is a term used to refer to abnormal colour vision in which objects appear to be abnormally coloured (some definitions say "falsely coloured") or tinged with a colour not perceived by most people, i.e. those unaffected by the same form of chromatopsia.
Some textbooks describe chromatopsia as a form of colour blindness.
Depending on the cause and circumstances, objects can take on a tinge or 'hue' of a particular colour such as as reddish hue, green, yellow-green, or a yellow-ish tinge.
For example, xanthopsia (yellow vision) is a form of chromatopsia in which all objects in the person's field of view appear to have a yellow-ish tinge.
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