nearsightedness

1. 1.

   (ophthalmology) eyesight abnormality resulting from the eye's faulty refractive ability; distant objects appear blurred

   Synonymsmyopiashortsightedness

   Broaderametropia

   ophthalmology

Other forms of nearsightedness

plural

nearsightednesses·

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 nearsightedness

What does nearsightedness mean?

nearsightedness means "(ophthalmology) eyesight abnormality resulting from the eye's faulty refractive ability; distant objects appear blurred".

How many syllables are in nearsightedness?

nearsightedness has 4 syllables: near-sigh-ted-ness. The stress falls on "near". In IPA it is /ˈniɹˌsaɪtɪdnəs/.

What is another word for nearsightedness?

Close synonyms include myopia, shortsightedness. 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 nearsightedness a common word?

nearsightedness 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 nearsightedness?

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