‖ myopia
(maɪˈəʊpɪə)
[mod.L., a. late Gr. µυωπία, f. µύωψ myops.]
Short-sightedness.
| [1693 tr. Blancard's Phys. Dict. (ed. 2).] 1727–52 Chambers Cycl. s.v., The myopia is owing to the too great convexity of the ball of the eye. 1803 Med. Jrnl. IX. 141 The structure of his eyes..being naturally such as to dispose him to myopia. 1895 Zangwill Master iii. ii. 294 There's money in myopia and diseases of the eye generally. |
| fig. 1801 C. Smith Lett. Solit. Wand. I. 280 Those who have what you justly called the myopia of the mind. 1891 O. W. Holmes Poet Breakf.-t. Pref. p. viii, The kind of partial blindness which belongs to intellectual myopia. |