farsightedness

Other forms of farsightedness

plural

farsightednesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about farsightedness

What does farsightedness mean?

farsightedness means "a reduced ability to focus on near objects caused by loss of elasticity of the crystalline lens after age 45". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in farsightedness?

farsightedness has 4 syllables: far-sigh-ted-ness. The stress falls on "sigh". In IPA it is /ˌfɑɹˈsaɪtɪdnəs/.

What is another word for farsightedness?

Close synonyms include presbyopia, hyperopia, hypermetropia, hypermetropy, longsightedness. 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 farsightedness a common word?

farsightedness 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.

What rhymes with farsightedness?

1 word rhymes with farsightedness. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.