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n. A visual defect in which distant objects appear blurred because their images are focused in front of the retina rather than on it; nearsightedness. Also called short sight.

n. Lack of discernment or long-range perspective in thinking or planning: "For Lorca, New York is a symbol of spiritual myopia” ( Edwin Honig).

n. A disorder of the vision where distant objects appear blurred because the eye focuses their images in front of the retina instead of on it.

n. A lack of imagination, discernment or long-range perspective in thinking or planning.

n. Nearsightedness; shortsightedness; a condition of the eye in which the rays from distant object are brought to a focus before they reach the retina, and hence form an indistinct image; while the rays from very near objects are normally converged so as to produce a distinct image. It is corrected by the use of a concave lens.

n. Short-sightedness; nearsightedness: the opposite of hypermetropia.

n. (ophthalmology) eyesight abnormality resulting from the eye's faulty refractive ability; distant objects appear blurred

"The word myopia was coined in 1693, and the meaning was soon extended."

ametropia   

chromic myopia    malignant   

nearsightedness    shortsightedness   

Ethiopia    Utopia    cornucopia    hyperopia    utopia   

farsightedness    presbyopia    astigmatism    caligo    tympanum    self-centeredness    timorousness    genuflexion    bitchiness    stinginess