long-sightedness
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VisionSpring, a social enterprise, provides entrepreneurs in 13 countries with a “business in a bag”: all the equipment they need to diagnose and correct long-sightedness.
From Economist ● Jun. 16, 2011
Ever since Lady Julia's arrival at the bishop's, he had foreseen the probability of this event, and had, in consequence of the long-sightedness of his views, endeavoured to make himself agreeable to her.
From Tales and Novels — Volume 05 by Edgeworth, Maria
Show how the proper lenses remedy short- and long-sightedness.
From Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools by Walters, Francis M.
The girl does not see it, but the priest sees it with the long-sightedness of decrepitude.
From The Saint by Thayer, William Roscoe
Presbyopia, pres-bi-ō′pi-a, n. long-sightedness, together with diminished power of distinguishing things near, common in old age—also Pres′byopy.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
