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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Vision in which the visual field is severely constricted, as from within a tunnel looking out.
  • noun An extremely narrow point of view; narrow-mindedness.

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  • noun A restricted field of vision as the result of looking through some type of object or a medical condition.
  • noun figuratively To focus one's attention on one specific item or event, to the exclusion of everything else.; a one-track mind

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  • noun visual impairment involving a loss of peripheral vision

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  • Narrow / specific / focussed approach and vision

    March 10, 2008

  • "I want my tunnel vision

    I need my medication

    I want your arms around me

    Wop bop dip bop doo doo doo doo"

    -- "Little Fingers", Apocalypse Hoboken

    March 11, 2008

  • Best word eva.

    July 25, 2008