myopia
noun
my·o·pia
mī-ˈō-pē-ə 
1
: a condition in which the visual images come to a focus (see focus entry 1 sense 4) in front of the retina of the eye resulting especially in defective vision of distant objects : nearsightedness
She wears glasses to correct her myopia.
2
: a lack of foresight or discernment : a narrow view of something
… those require long-term commitments, which in our current myopia we cannot take on.—
Adam Smith
Adam SmithExamples of myopia in a Sentence
She wears eyeglasses to correct her myopia.
Recent Examples on the Web
Keep telling yourself that his myopia says nothing at all about you.
—Haben Kelati, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2024
These minimum-wage compacts are a classic case of policy myopia — choosing popular sentiment over practical sustainability.
—Patrick M. Brenner, National Review, 2 Feb. 2024
As the line separating right-of-center comedians from Fox News hosts blurs to nonexistence—and as Jon Stewart returns to rant against partisan myopia on The Daily Show—Gillis makes no claim to being wiser than anyone.
—TIME, 23 Feb. 2024
That’s a myopia that Jeff Bezos rejected so completely that Amazon’s annual report republishes his first letter to shareholders every year.
—Gautam Mukunda, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
Rather than deferring to public-health authorities — ones who later admitted to a certain myopia about stopping infection above all other goals — DeSantis took responsibility for reconciling the information and expertise that public-health bodies could offer with the existing life of his state.
—Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 12 Jan. 2024
In time, a kind of ironic distance settled on us, and students, too, began poking at the myopia and the hypocrisies of various leaders.
—Bernard Avishai, The New Yorker, 2 Feb. 2024
This myopia applies to insurers in the public and private sectors.
—Torie Bosch, STAT, 13 Jan. 2024
Was this uncertainty of hers, Rain wondered flatly — without the usual up-lift of emphasis in a question—just the normal myopia of late adolescence.
—EW.com, 9 Oct. 2023
Haben Kelati, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2024
These minimum-wage compacts are a classic case of policy myopia — choosing popular sentiment over practical sustainability.
—Patrick M. Brenner, National Review, 2 Feb. 2024
As the line separating right-of-center comedians from Fox News hosts blurs to nonexistence—and as Jon Stewart returns to rant against partisan myopia on The Daily Show—Gillis makes no claim to being wiser than anyone.
—TIME, 23 Feb. 2024
That’s a myopia that Jeff Bezos rejected so completely that Amazon’s annual report republishes his first letter to shareholders every year.
—Gautam Mukunda, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
Rather than deferring to public-health authorities — ones who later admitted to a certain myopia about stopping infection above all other goals — DeSantis took responsibility for reconciling the information and expertise that public-health bodies could offer with the existing life of his state.
—Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 12 Jan. 2024
In time, a kind of ironic distance settled on us, and students, too, began poking at the myopia and the hypocrisies of various leaders.
—Bernard Avishai, The New Yorker, 2 Feb. 2024
This myopia applies to insurers in the public and private sectors.
—Torie Bosch, STAT, 13 Jan. 2024
Was this uncertainty of hers, Rain wondered flatly — without the usual up-lift of emphasis in a question—just the normal myopia of late adolescence.
—EW.com, 9 Oct. 2023
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Copy CitationKids Definition
myopia
noun
my·o·pia
mī-ˈō-pē-ə
1
: the condition of being nearsighted
2
: a lack of foresight : a narrow view of something
Medical Definition
myopia
noun
my·o·pia
mī-ˈō-pē-ə
: a condition in which the visual images come to a focus in front of the retina of the eye because of defects in the refractive media of the eye or of abnormal length of the eyeball resulting especially in defective vision of distant objects
called also nearsightedness
compare astigmatism sense 2, emmetropiaLove words? Need even more definitions?
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