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short-sightedness

short-sightedness noun: myopia: impairment of vision's acuity for distant objects.

Noun

short-sightedness (uncountable)

  1. Myopia: impairment of vision's acuity for distant objects.
    Synonyms:
    nearsightedness
  2. The propensity of a person to ignore long-term goals in favor of short-term gains.
    Synonyms:
    short-termism

short-sightedness meaning in Tamil and Bengali

short-sightedness in Tamil

short-sightedness, myopia
கிட்டப்பார்வை kiṭṭappārvai

short-sightedness in Bengali

short-sightedness
অপরিণামদর্শীতা oprinamodorśita

Synonyms of short-sightedness

Antonyms

Forms of short-sightedness

alternative formshortsightedness

Origin of short-sightedness

From short-sighted + -ness.

Questions about short-sightedness

What does short-sightedness mean?
Short-sightedness means myopia: impairment of vision's acuity for distant objects.
What is short-sightedness in Tamil?
Short-sightedness in Tamil is கிட்டப்பார்வை (kiṭṭappārvai). See Short-sightedness meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is short-sightedness?
Short-sightedness is a noun.

Words near short-sightedness in the dictionary

  1. short-short stories
  2. short-short story
  3. short-shorts
  4. short-sighted
  5. short-sightedly
  6. short-sightedness
  7. short-sleeper
  8. short-sleepers
  9. short-sleeved
  10. short-sold
  11. short-spoken

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Adapted from Wiktionary: short-sightedness (page history and authors); கிட்டப்பார்வை (Tamil) (page history and authors); অপরিণামদর্শীতা (Bengali) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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