Definition of farsightedness
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:the quality or state of being farsighted
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:hyperopia
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thanks to our farsightedness, we had sufficient emergency supplies when the storm knocked out our power
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Of the overall cases, 69 percent arose from simple uncorrected refractive errors, which include myopia (nearsightedness), hyperopia (farsightedness) and astigmatism (blurry vision up close, far away or both).
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Presbyopia is farsightedness that usually occurs as people age.
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Otherwise, my children will take their children to Arlington and teach them not about the worth of their ancestors’ sacrifices, or the farsightedness of JFK’s policy, but the ultimate futility of both.
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But there's a flip side to such farsightedness that shows up again and again in the history of innovation: the blind spots, the possibilities that somehow escaped our field of vision but that, in retrospect, seem glaringly obvious.
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First Known Use of farsightedness
circa 1829
farsightedness Synonyms
Synonyms
foresight, foresightedness, forethought, prescience, providence, visionAntonyms
improvidence, myopia, shortsightednessRelated Words
precaution, premeditation; discernment, discretion, insight, perception, perceptiveness, prudence, sagaciousness, sagacity, sageness, sapience, wisdomNear Antonyms
hindsightMedical Dictionary
farsightedness
noun
far·sight·ed·ness
medical Definition of farsightedness
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:the quality or state of being farsighted
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:hyperopia
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