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LONGSIGHTEDNESS

Dictionary entry overview: What does longsightedness mean?

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

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

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

Dictionary entry details

• LONGSIGHTEDNESS (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 ("longsightedness" 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 "longsightedness"):

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

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