tunnel vision

tunnel vision

English

Noun

tunnel vision (uncountable)

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

   It took some time for him to get used to the tunnel vision he experienced while looking through a periscope.

2. (figuratively) The tendency to focus one's attention on one specific idea or viewpoint, to the exclusion of everything else; a one-track mind.

   After Mark fell victim to tunnel vision, nothing you could say to him would change his mind.

Translations

restricted field of vision

Danish: tunnelsyn n Finnish: putkinäkö German: Tunnelblick (de) m Greek: σωληνοειδής όραση f (solinoeidís órasi) Hungarian: csőlátás

Norwegian: Bokmål: tunnelsyn n Nynorsk: tunnelsyn n or f Spanish: visión de túnel (es) f Swedish: tunnelseene c

one-track mind — see one-track mind