hypermetropia

1. 1.

   abnormal condition in which vision for distant objects is better than for near objects

   Synonymshyperopiahypermetropyfarsightednesslongsightedness

   Broaderametropia

   Narrowerpresbyopia

Other forms of hypermetropia

plural

hypermetropias·

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 hypermetropia

What does hypermetropia mean?

hypermetropia means "abnormal condition in which vision for distant objects is better than for near objects".

How many syllables are in hypermetropia?

hypermetropia has 6 syllables: hy-per-me-tro-pi-a. The stress falls on "tro".

What is another word for hypermetropia?

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

hypermetropia 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.