myopia
nounUK /maɪˈəʊ.pɪ.ə/ · US /maɪˈoʊ.pi.ə/
Etymology Borrowed from Ancient Greek μυωπία (muōpía, “shortsightedness”), from μύω (múō, “to shut, close”) + ὤψ (ṓps, “eye”) + -ία (-ía).
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Medicine, Pathology, Sciences A disorder of the vision where distant objects appear blurred because the eye focuses their images in front of the retina instead of on it.
- The modern rise in myopia mirrored a trend for children in many countries to spend more time engaged in reading, studying or — more recently — glued to computer and smartphone screens.2015 March 15, Elie Dolgin, “The myopia boom”, in Nature:
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Figuratively A lack of imagination, discernment or long-range perspective in thinking or planning.
- Derived terms
- anisomyopia, compound myopia, heteromyopia, isomyopia, myope, myopiagenic, myopic, myopically, myopist, myopization, pseudomyopia, simple myopia
- Related terms
- astigmatism, emmetropia