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HYPERMETROPIA

Dictionary entry overview: What does hypermetropia mean?

• HYPERMETROPIA (noun)
The noun HYPERMETROPIA has 1 sense:

1. abnormal condition in which vision for distant objects is better than for near objects

Familiarity information: HYPERMETROPIA used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• HYPERMETROPIA (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

farsightedness; hypermetropia; hypermetropy; hyperopia; longsightedness

Hypernyms ("hypermetropia" 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 "hypermetropia"):

presbyopia (farsightedness resulting from a reduced ability to focus caused by loss of elasticity of the crystalline lens with age)

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