nearsightedness

from 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}]
from 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]
from 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
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