Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A visual defect in which distant objects appear blurred because their images are focused in front of the retina rather than on it.
- noun Lack of discernment or long-range perspective in thinking or planning.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Short-sightedness; nearsightedness: the opposite of
hypermetropia .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) Nearsightedness; shortsightedness; a condition of the eye in which the rays from distant object are brought to a focus before they reach the retina, and hence form an indistinct image; while the rays from very near objects are normally converged so as to produce a distinct image. It is corrected by the use of a concave lens.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun pathology A
disorder of thevision where distant objects appearblurred because the eyefocuses their images in front of theretina instead of on it. - noun A
lack ofimagination ,discernment or long-rangeperspective in thinking or planning.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (ophthalmology) eyesight abnormality resulting from the eye's faulty refractive ability; distant objects appear blurred
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The word myopia was coined in 1693, and the meaning was soon extended.
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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The word myopia was coined in 1693, and the meaning was soon extended.
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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Infrastructure spending, spending now to build our competiveness and put people to work, suffers under the current short-term myopia of debt cutting first and foremost.
Jay Pelosky: Bi-Sectoralism V: Beyond Short-Termism Jay Pelosky 2012
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There is a danger that short-term myopia may end-up self defeating in the long-term as immediate gains will mask more important time-bombs.
Raj Nallari: Reflections on Development Economics After the Crisis Raj Nallari 2010
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This myopia is reflected in both political and media rhetoric, where “Republican” and “Conservative” have been so thoroughly conflated that they are used almost interchangeably across the board.
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Perhaps this does indicate a certain myopia on the part of the American foreign-policy establishment.
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Perhaps this does indicate a certain myopia on the part of the American foreign-policy establishment.
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To add insult to injury, my myopia is such that the lenses weighed about a pound apiece, each resembling a portal on a submarine.
my eyes have seen the glory of ... okay, not much, really 2004
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This myopia is at the root of why we can’t tell a good idea when it bites us, or see that Obama is (literally) a gift from God, for a nation with it’s head up it’s arse.
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But the reason can’t be that they’re perfectly forward-looking — the evidence for high rates of time preference and myopia is too overwhelming.
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