double vision

noun

Origin of double vision

First recorded in 1855–60

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I teed off, I turned around, took a step and then all of a sudden I got, they called it, stacked double vision.
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Its symptoms can include headaches, nausea, double vision and dizziness.
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The area of double vision extended from the limit of the right visual field to about 20° the other side of the middle line.
Schweigger on Squint | C. Schweigger
It offered a double vision, the strongest dose of life that art could give, the strongest dose of art that life could give.
The Tragic Muse | Henry James
It was like a double vision of light and darkness that, while contrasting, neither assimilated nor harmonized.
The Leavenworth Case | Anna Katherine Green

That double vision, the acceptance of a general good together with the possibility of extreme ill to the individual, puzzled him.
The Bright Shawl | Joseph Hergesheimer
Instead of seeing singly with two eyes, there is then double-vision (diplopia).
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 | Various

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