hemianopsia
noun
hemianopsia is a noun meaning “Blindness in one half of the field of vision of either or both eyes” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-E-M-I-A-N-O-P-S-I-A, and it appears about once in every 81 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of hemianopsia is hemianopsias.
What does hemianopsia mean?
noun
- 1
Blindness in one half of the field of vision of either or both eyes.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of hemianopsia
- hemianopsias plural
- hemianopia
- hemiopia
- hemiopsia
- hemiopsy
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is hemianopsia?
Hemianopsia appears about once in every 81 million words in written English, the 286,585th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Hemianopsia in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense type of blindness:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | hémiopie |
| Spanish | hemianopsia |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does hemianopsia come from?
From hemi- + an- + -opsia.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).