Usually means: Inability to see distant objects clearly.
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General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. short-sightedness, short-sightedness: Collins English Dictionary
  2. short-sightedness: Wordnik
  3. short-sightedness: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. short-sightedness: Wiktionary
  5. short-sightedness: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  6. short-sightedness: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Short-sightedness: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Short-Sightedness: Visionary
  2. Short-sightedness: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Visionary, for the Study of Vision (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (short-sightedness)

noun:  Myopia: impairment of vision's acuity for distant objects.
noun:  The propensity of a person to ignore long-term goals in favor of short-term gains.

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