'Nearsightedness' definitions:
Definition of 'nearsightedness'
(from WordNet)
noun
(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]
Definition of 'Nearsightedness'
From: GCIDE
Synonyms of 'nearsightedness'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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