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farsightedness
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun farsightedness has 3 senses
- farsightedness(n = noun.state) presbyopia - a reduced ability to focus on near objects caused by loss of elasticity of the crystalline lens after age 45; Array is a kind of farsightedness, hypermetropia, hypermetropy, hyperopia, longsightedness
- farsightedness(n = noun.state) hypermetropia, hypermetropy, hyperopia, longsightedness - abnormal condition in which vision for distant objects is better than for near objects; Array is a kind of ametropia
- farsightedness(n = noun.cognition) foresight, prevision, prospicience - seeing ahead; knowing in advance; foreseeing; Array is a kind of knowing
has particulars: farsightedness, presbyopia
Derived form adjective farsighted1
Derived form adjective farsighted2
CIDE DICTIONARY
farsightedness, n.
- Quality of bbeing farsighted. [1913 Webster]
- Hypermetropia. [1913 Webster]
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