long-sightedness

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VisionSpring, a social enterprise, provides entrepreneurs in 13 countries with a “business in a bag”: all the equipment they need to diagnose and correct long-sightedness.

From Economist • Jun. 16, 2011

The Surfrider Foundation applauds the City of Laguna Beach for their courage and long-sightedness in joining the City of Oceanside in publicly opposing the toll road�s preferred alignment.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Italian long-sightedness and prudence and business capacity are ignored save in so far as they delayed the country's entrance into the Great War.

From The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 by Baerlein, Henry

The girl does not see it, but the priest sees it with the long-sightedness of decrepitude.

From The Saint by Thayer, William Roscoe

Hypermetropia, hī-per-me-trō′pi-a, n. long-sightedness, the opposite of Myopia—-also Hyperop′ia.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various