tunnel vision en · NOUN
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(uncountable) A restricted field of vision, especially as the result of looking through some type of object or a medical condition.
Some people experience tunnel vision during a panic attack.
The most frequent visual distortion was “tunnel vision,” in which the officer became so focused on one object that everything else at the scene went unnoticed. This phenomenon is frequently experienced by victims of a terrifying event as well.
2008, Curt R. Bartol, Anne M. Bartol, Introduction to Forensic Psychology: Research and Application, SAGE, →ISBN, page 64:It took some time for him to get used to the tunnel vision he experienced while looking through a periscope.
Often people with AD have a form of tunnel vision and don't see obstacles […]
2000, Mark L. Warner, The Complete Guide to Alzheimer's—Proofing Your Home, Purdue University Press, →ISBN, page 378:
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(figuratively, uncountable) The tendency to focus one's attention on one specific idea or viewpoint, to the exclusion of everything else.
Having friends that are too much like yourself force you to have a tunnel vision. I believe tunnel vision is a form of blindness. Your span of thinking becomes too narrow, and you close yourself off of so many other great ways of thinking in life.
2014, Paul Nijar, Everything I Thought I Was & What I Came to Be, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 209:After Mark fell victim to tunnel vision, nothing you could say to him would change his mind.
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fr vision tunnelisée (restricted field of vision) · de Tunnelblick (restricted field of vision) · es visión de túnel (restricted field of vision) · pl widzenie lunetowe (restricted field of vision) · mr विवर दृष्टि (restricted field of vision) · nl tunnelvisie (restricted field of vision) · el σωληνοειδής όραση (restricted field of vision) · da tunnelsyn (restricted field of vision) · ru тунне́льное зре́ние (restricted field of vision) · nn tunnelsyn (restricted field of vision) · hu csőlátás (restricted field of vision) · fr vision tunnellaire (restricted field of vision) · sv tunnelseende (restricted field of vision) · fi putkinäkö (restricted field of vision) · nb tunnelsyn (restricted field of vision)