nearsightedness
Americannoun
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a disorder of vision resulting in the ability to see only things at short distances.
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the failure to foresee future challenges or opportunities due to a lack of imagination or insight; shortsightedness.
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Nearsightedness typically develops between ages 3 and 10, when the eyeballs are rapidly growing, though it can progress during adolescence and young adulthood.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 28, 2025
Nearsightedness, formally called myopia, affects about 30% of the world’s population and evidence shows it has been steadily increasing over the past 20 years.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 16, 2021
Nearsightedness, or myopia, is the inability to see distant objects clearly while close objects are clear.
From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015
Nearsightedness, farsightedness, and astigmatism can be corrected with an accuracy that produces normal distant vision in more than 90% of the patients, in many cases right away.
From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015
Nearsightedness seems to increase from class to class, until in the upper departments, there are sometimes as high as fifty per cent of the pupils thus afflicted.
From Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics by Steele, Joel Dorman
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