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Nearsightedness

Nearsightedness \Near"sight`ed*ness\, n. (Med.) An eyesight abnormality resulting from the eye's faulty refractive ability, such that one can see only close objects distinctly; the condition of being nearsighted. See Myopic, and Myopia.

Syn: myopia, shortsightedness.

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nearsightedness

n. The property of being nearsighted, myopia.

WordNet
nearsightedness

n. (ophthalmology) eyesight abnormality resulting from the eye's faulty refractive ability; distant objects appear blurred [syn: myopia, shortsightedness] [ant: hyperopia]

Usage examples of "nearsightedness".

Thankfully, aging has brought on nearsightedness, which does not warrant correction considering her three-meter maximum range due to head limitations.

Conspicuously large cranium, heavy glasses for nearsightedness, dingy skinit was the insect salesman.

She had found a cure for her myopia-a sure omen that nearsightedness was not an immutable sentence.

Ignorance -- for problems that it causes itself, either directly or indirectly, through its own limitations, nearsightedness, or neglect.

I was called in for a physical examination, and it at once turned out that my nearsightedness was so bad as to render me ineligible for the draft anyway.

Nazi Germany, between destruction and vigorous productivity, between a devastating systemic perspective and an inconspicuous-ambivalent nearsightedness on the local level.

All of whichcombined with nearsightedness, asthma and a club foot that lent me a lopsided gaitmakes me, I suppose, an improbable agent in the events that are to follow.

The programs that came with the unit lacked all the more substantial form-change functions-it did not even permit eye adjustments, which Bey had needed for nearsightedness since he was a teenager.

They dont have nearsightedness on the Outer Worlds, I suppose, or they might have reached the true solution of the murder almost at once.

They don't have nearsightedness on the Outer Worlds, I suppose, or they might have reached the true solution of the murder almost at once.