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
Mr. McLain by earnest long-sightedness and industry succeeded in becoming a well-to-do citizen.
From The Mystery of Monastery Farm by H. R. Naylor
The girl does not see it, but the priest sees it with the long-sightedness of decrepitude.
From The Saint by William Roscoe Thayer
It was the misfortune of Allcraft, with all his long-sightedness, not to see far enough.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 by Various
Short-sightedness is corrected by concave lenses and long-sightedness by convex lenses, as shown in diagrams above.
From Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools by Francis M. Walters
