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[syn: myopia, nearsightedness, shortsightedness]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
[1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
nearsightedness
n 1: (ophthalmology) eyesight abnormality resulting from the
eye's faulty refractive ability; distant objects appear
blurred [syn: myopia, nearsightedness,
shortsightedness] [ant: farsightedness,
hypermetropia, hypermetropy, hyperopia,
longsightedness]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
44 Moby Thesaurus words for "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, myopia,
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