About The Word Nearsightedness

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Nearsightedness

Nearsightedness Meaning & Definition
Nearsightedness Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Nearsightedness?

[n] (ophthalmology) eyesight abnormality resulting from the eye's faulty refractive ability; distant objects appear blurred

Synonyms | Synonyms for Nearsightedness: myopia | shortsightedness

Related Terms | Find terms related to Nearsightedness: authoritarianism | bigotry | blind side | blind spot | blinders | blindness | closed mind | cramped ideas | dim-sightedness | fanaticism | hideboundness | illiberality | imperceptiveness | impercipience | incomprehension | insensibility | insularism | insularity | little-mindedness | littleness | mean mind | meanness | narrow sympathies | narrow views | narrow-mindedness | narrowness | nonunderstanding | odium theologicum | parochialism | pettiness | petty mind | provincialism | purblindness | short sight | shortsightedness | shut mind | smallness | straitlacedness | stuffiness | unapprehendingness | uncatholicity | undiscerningness | unperceptiveness

See Also | ametropia

Nearsightedness In Webster's Dictionary

\Near"sight`ed*ness\, n. See {Myopic}, and {Myopia}.

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