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View definitions for shortsightedness

shortsightedness

noun as in improvidence

noun as in tunnel vision

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Example Sentences

Had the doctor's wisdom been monstrous folly, and his prudence the blindest shortsightedness?

In this, as in other things, we have a tendency toward smugness, shortsightedness and egotism.

Love wasn't a sacred fluid held in a single vessel of alabaster; marriage didn't conveniently create shortsightedness.

But instead of doing this, people follow the usual course of shortsightedness and make their private standpoint a universal one.

The shortsightedness of this policy will be apparent when one calculates that the ships were hired by the day.

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On this page you'll find 16 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to shortsightedness, such as: carelessness, neglect, waste, and wastefulness.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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