shortsightedness

Other forms of shortsightedness

plural

shortsightednesses·

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 shortsightedness

What does shortsightedness mean?

shortsightedness means "(ophthalmology) eyesight abnormality resulting from the eye's faulty refractive ability; distant objects appear blurred". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in shortsightedness?

shortsightedness has 4 syllables: short-sigh-ted-ness. The stress falls on "short". In IPA it is /ˈʃɔɹtˈsaɪtɪdnɪs/.

What is another word for shortsightedness?

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

shortsightedness 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.