myopia
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++my·o·pi·a /maɪˈəʊpiə $ -ˈoʊ-/ noun [uncountable] 1. NOT KNOWwhen someone does not think about the future, especially about the possible results of a particular action – used to show disapproval 目光短浅，缺乏远见〔含贬义〕 SYN short-sightedness2. medicalMI the inability to see clearly things that are far away 近视 SYN British English short-sightedness, American English nearsightedness
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myopia• It appears that literacy causes myopia.• The child with high myopia is also at risk of further visual deterioration from muscular haemorrhage or retinal detachment.• Illiteracy is not the only, nor the most important, evidence of national myopia.• She kept hitting my forehead, and penumbra replaced myopia, and my arms fell away, no longer offering interference.• It should be used as a platform from which to explore the different modes that he suggests of lessening the short-run myopia.• Tom Peters, finding such myopia hard to believe, attacked the attackers in an Open Letter to Congress.• If the myopia is of high degree the vision may not be normal even with glasses.Origin myopia (1700-1800) Modern Latin Greek, from myops “person with myopia”, from myein “to be closed” + ops “eye”my·o·pi·a nounChineseSyllable
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myopia
my‧o‧pi‧a /maɪˈəʊpiə $ -ˈoʊ-/
noun [uncountable]
SYN short-sightedness
2. medical the inability to see clearly things that are far away
SYN short-sightedness British English, nearsightedness American English
my‧o‧pi‧a /maɪˈəʊpiə $ -ˈoʊ-/
noun [uncountable] Date: 1700-1800
Language: Modern Latin
Origin: Greek, from myops 'person with myopia', from myein 'to be closed' + ops 'eye'
1. when someone does not think about the future, especially about the possible results of a particular action – used in order to show disapproval Language: Modern Latin
Origin: Greek, from myops 'person with myopia', from myein 'to be closed' + ops 'eye'
SYN short-sightedness
2. medical the inability to see clearly things that are far away
SYN short-sightedness British English, nearsightedness American English