| NOUN | state | nearsightedness, myopia, shortsightedness | (ophthalmology) eyesight abnormality resulting from the eye's faulty refractive ability |
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| Sounds | niy'rsay.tihdnahs | |
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| Rhymes | abacus ... zealous: 1164 rhymes with ahs... | |
| Meaning | (ophthalmology) eyesight abnormality resulting from the eye's faulty refractive ability; distant objects appear blurred. | |
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| Synonyms | myopia, shortsightedness | |
| Category | ophthalmology | The branch of medicine concerned with the eye and its diseases |
| Broader | ametropia | (ophthalmology) faulty refraction of light rays in the eye as in astigmatism or myopia |
| Opposite | hyperopia, hypermetropia, hypermetropy, farsightedness, longsightedness | Abnormal condition in which vision for distant objects is better than for near objects |
| Spanish | miopía | |
| Catalan | miopia | |
| Adjectives | nearsighted | unable to see distant objects clearly |
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