before a vowel chromat-. Combining form of Gr. χρῶμα color, as in Chromatocracy, nonce-wd., a ruling class of a particular color, e.g., of white men. Chromatogenous a. Path., generating or producing color. Chromatometablepsy [Gr. μεταβλέπειν to change one’s point of view; cf. ABLEPSY], erroneous perception of colors, color-blindness. Chromatopseudopsy [Gr. ψευδ-ής + -οψια seeing], = prec. Chromatopsy [Gr. -οψια seeing], colored or chromatic vision. Chromatoptometry [see OPTOMETER and -METRY], ‘testing the sensibility of the eye for colours’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.). (See also following words.)
1852. Maurice, in Life (1884), II. iii. 131. It will come in illegitimately as a Plutocracy or a Chromatocracy.
1860. in Mayne, Expos. Lex., Chromatogenous … applied to the functions of the derma.
1881. Syd. Soc. Lex., s.v. Chromatogenous diseases, diseases accompanied by discolorations of the skin.
1849–52. Todd, Cycl. Anat., IV. 1452/2. Jūngken employs indifferently the denominations of a chromatopsy, chromatopseudopsy, and chromatometablepsy. Ibid., IV. 1460/2. We could never discover in them any trace of chromatopseudopsy.
1879. P. Smith, Glaucoma, 76. To ascertain whether the chromatopsy might be due to an inequality in the size of the pupils.
