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
To say that these thoughts had been with him since his first hazardous entry into Medina is to grant him a long-sightedness which his opportunist rule does not warrant.
From Mahomet Founder of Islam by Gladys M. Draycott
Ever since Lady Julia's arrival at the bishop's, he had foreseen the probability of this event, and had, in consequence of the long-sightedness of his views, endeavoured to make himself agreeable to her.
From Tales and Novels — Volume 05 by Maria Edgeworth
Short-sightedness is corrected by concave lenses and long-sightedness by convex lenses, as shown in diagrams above.
From Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools by Francis M. Walters
Presbyopia, pres-bi-ō′pi-a, n. long-sightedness, together with diminished power of distinguishing things near, common in old age—also Pres′byopy.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
