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
The girl does not see it, but the priest sees it with the long-sightedness of decrepitude.
From The Saint by William Roscoe Thayer
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
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
