nearsightedness

Examples

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• Nearsightedness can have negative effects on one's social, as well as athletic, life.

  Academic text (2007)

• I have no knowledge of the precise degree of my nearsightedness, but it must have been significant enough to compromise my skill at some games and sports.

  Academic text (2007)

• Because of my nearsightedness, I would put my face right up to the puzzle.

  Fiction book (1994)

• At first, I thought it was an optical illusion created by my nearsightedness.

  Fiction book (1994)

• My nearsightedness keeps getting worse; I thought older folks became farsighted. What gives?

  Blog text (7)

• I must have been quite nearsighted from a very early age—probably from birth—but my nearsightedness was not discovered until I was about ten years old.

  Academic text (2007)

• Specs are known to alleviate conditions such as astigmatism, nearsightedness, farsightedness, presbyopia, and myopia.

  Blog text (29)

• One little-understood aspect of corrective lenses is that they either magnify (in the case of farsightedness) or minify (in the case of nearsightedness) what the wearer sees.

  Academic text (2007)

• He wears glasses to manage his nearsightedness, which makes it hard for him to see distant objects clearly.

• Because of her nearsightedness, she struggles to read the street signs while driving.

Synonyms

M

myopia

vsnearsightedness

• Specialized

7 6.6

An eye condition where distant things look blurred

is the nontechnical name commonly used in ordinary speech

S

shortsightedness

vsnearsightedness

6.5

Difficulty seeing things far away without glasses

is the same condition but often used less medically

Antonyms

F

farsightedness

• Specialized

1 6.8

A condition where you see far things clearly but near things are blurry

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Etymology