Literary notes about Myopia (AI summary)
The term “myopia” is employed with a fascinating versatility in literature, serving both as a clinical descriptor and a metaphor for narrowness of vision or thought. In its literal sense, authors refer to the physical condition of near-sightedness, often quantified through measurements or noted for its impact on everyday life ([1], [2], [3]). At the same time, myopia is frequently used figuratively to depict a shortsighted mentality—whether in matters of personal infatuation or broader political judgment—emphasizing an inability to perceive the full scope of circumstances ([4], [5], [6]). This dual application enriches literary narratives, allowing writers to explore themes of perception and limitation on multiple levels ([7], [8]).
- short-sightedness , n. myopia, near-sightedness ; unwisdom, imprudence, indiscretion .
— from Putnam's Word Book A Practical Aid in Expressing Ideas Through the Use of an Exact and Varied Vocabulary by Louis A. (Louis Andrew) Flemming - There was a rather high degree of myopia.
— from Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle - Unfortunately, I happen to be afflicted with myopia, which at a certain distance blurs the outline of objects large or small.
— from Down the Orinoco in a Canoe by Santiago Pérez Triana - Indeed, the most violent emotion to which he was sensible was one of chagrin over his own infatuate myopia.
— from The Bandbox by Louis Joseph Vance - It does mean depth as opposed to shallowness, bigness as opposed to littleness, and vision as opposed to spiritual myopia.
— from The Reconstructed School by Francis B. (Francis Bail) Pearson - The myopia of such crude selfishness continues to determine his politics to this very day.
— from The Glands Regulating Personality A Study of the Glands of Internal Secretion in Relation to the Types of Human Nature by Louis Berman - In fact, is it not obvious that every high degree of goodness itself presupposes a certain intellectual myopia and obtuseness?
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Nietzsche - But in point of fact, if two sides is all he sees, he is only one remove from the bigot whose mental myopia limits him to a single narrow facet.
— from Asa Holmes; or, At the Cross-Roads by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston
