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
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