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Quick-sightedness

Quick-sighted \Quick"-sight`ed\, a. Having quick sight or acute discernment; quick to see or to discern.
--Locke. [1913 Webster]
-- Quick"-sight`ed*ness, n.

Usage examples of "quick-sightedness".

I cannot help, therefore, regarding this vast quick-sightedness into evil as a vicious excess, and as a very pernicious evil in itself.