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Myopia   /maɪˈoʊpiə/   Listen
Myopia

noun
1.
(ophthalmology) eyesight abnormality resulting from the eye's faulty refractive ability; distant objects appear blurred.  Synonyms: nearsightedness, shortsightedness.  Antonym: hyperopia.





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"Myopia" Quotes from Famous Books



... following the revolution, there were those in the east, and especially in New England, who suffered from myopia. They utterly failed to see the future of the republic, or the importance of holding the western country. To them, such men as Harrod and Kenton, Logan and Boone, were "lawless borderers" and willful aggressors on the rights of the red man. And yet, back of the crowning ...
— The Land of the Miamis • Elmore Barce


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