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LONGSIGHTEDNESS

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Abnormal condition in which vision for distant objects is better than for near objects

Synonyms:

farsightedness; hypermetropia; hypermetropy; hyperopia; longsightedness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("longsightedness" is a kind of...):

ametropia ((ophthalmology) faulty refraction of light rays in the eye as in astigmatism or myopia)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "longsightedness"):

farsightedness; presbyopia (a reduced ability to focus on near objects caused by loss of elasticity of the crystalline lens after age 45)

Derivation:

longsighted (capable of seeing to a great distance)

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