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HYPEROPIA

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Dictionary entry overview: What does hyperopia mean?

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

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

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

Dictionary entry details

• HYPEROPIA (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 ("hyperopia" 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 "hyperopia"):

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

Antonym:

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

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