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shortsightedness

NOUN
improvidence
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Shortsightedness, for instance, is in part genetically determined.

From Washington Post • Nov. 17, 2021

"Shortsightedness and selfish interests are hampering the production and delivery of the kinds of goods consumers require at prices they can afford to pay," said he at a textile symposium in Manhattan.

From Time Magazine Archive

Shortsightedness is about to cost us our national parks.

From Time Magazine Archive

Shortsightedness among civilised nations, for example, is due partly to the absence of selection and consequent regression towards a mean, and partly to its individual production by constant reading.

From Darwinism (1889) by Wallace, Alfred Russel




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