double vision

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   visual impairment in which an object is seen as two objects

   “diplopia often disappears when one eye is covered”

   Synonymsdiplopia

   Broadervisual impairment

Questions about double vision

What does double vision mean?

double vision means "visual impairment in which an object is seen as two objects".

What is another word for double vision?

Close synonyms include diplopia. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is double vision a common word?

double vision is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.