myopia

myopia

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek μυωπία (muōpía, “shortsightedness”), from μύω (múō, “to shut eyes”) +‎ ὤψ (ṓps, “view”) +‎ -ία (-ía).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /maɪˈəʊ.pɪ.ə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /maɪˈoʊ.pi.ə/
• Rhymes: -əʊpiə

Noun

myopia (countable and uncountable, plural myopias)

1. (pathology) A disorder of the vision where distant objects appear blurred because the eye focuses their images in front of the retina instead of on it.
2. A lack of imagination, discernment or long-range perspective in thinking or planning.

Synonyms

• (seeing disorder): shortsightedness, nearsightedness

Antonyms

• hyperopia, farsightedness

Derived terms

• heteromyopia
• isomyopia
• myope
• myopiagenic
• myopic
• myopically
• pseudomyopia

 

Translations

disorder of the vision — see nearsightedness

lack of imagination, discernment or long-range perspective in thinking or planning

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Armenian: կարճատեսություն (hy) (karčatesutʿyun) Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Dutch: kortzichtigheid f Finnish: lyhytnäköisyys (fi) French: myope (fr) m or f German: Kurzsichtigkeit (de) f

Hindi: please add this translation if you can Korean: please add this translation if you can Persian: please add this translation if you can Russian: близору́кость (ru) f (blizorúkostʹ) Spanish: miopía (es) f Swedish: kortsiktighet (sv) c Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

See also

• astigmatism
• emmetropia
• hyperopia
• (seeing disorder): presbyopia

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Portuguese

Noun

myopia f (uncountable)

1. Obsolete spelling of miopia (used in Portugal until September 1911 and died out in Brazil during the 1920s).