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
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
Mr. McLain by earnest long-sightedness and industry succeeded in becoming a well-to-do citizen.
From The Mystery of Monastery Farm by H. R. Naylor
Show how the proper lenses remedy short- and long-sightedness.
From Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools by Francis M. Walters
Fox had no long-sightedness, no tendency to forecast evils, or to burden himself with possible misfortunes.
From Practical Essays by Alexander Bain
