Nearsightedness

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  nearsightedness
       n : (ophthalmology) eyesight abnormality resulting from the
           eye's faulty refractive ability; distant objects appear
           blurred [syn: {myopia}, {shortsightedness}] [ant: {hyperopia}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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