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
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
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 Draycott, Gladys M.
Show how the proper lenses remedy short- and long-sightedness.
From Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools by Walters, Francis M.
