short sight
[short a. 1 h.]
The defect of sight by which only near objects are seen distinctly; myopia.
| 1822–29 Good's Study Med. (ed. 3) IV. 211 Paropsis propinqua. Short sight. 1879 G. C. Harlan Eyesight vi. 79 Dr. Cohn, of Breslau,..found the percentage of short-sight increasing from year to year. |
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| a 1888 H. D. Rawnsley in W. Knight Shairp & Friends 384 Invective against the modern shortsight of commercial utilitarianism. |