hyperopia

1. 1.

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

   Synonymshypermetropiahypermetropyfarsightednesslongsightedness

   Antonymsmyopia

   Broaderametropia

   Narrowerpresbyopia

Other forms of hyperopia

plural

hyperopias·

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 hyperopia

What does hyperopia mean?

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

How many syllables are in hyperopia?

hyperopia has 5 syllables: hy-pe-ro-pi-a. The stress falls on "ro". In IPA it is /ˌhaɪpɚˈoʊˌpiɑ/.

What is another word for hyperopia?

Close synonyms include hypermetropia, 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.

What is the opposite of hyperopia?

The recorded antonyms are myopia.

Is hyperopia a common word?

hyperopia 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.