Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An abnormal condition of the eye in which vision is better for distant objects than for near objects. It results from the eyeball being too short from front to back, causing images to be focused behind the retina.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
hypermetropia .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An abnormal condition of the eye in which, through shortness of the eyeball or fault of the refractive media, the rays of light come to a focus behind the retina, making vision for distant objects better than for near objects; farsightedness; -- called also
hypermetropia . Cf.emmetropia .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun pathology A disorder of the vision where the eye focusses images behind the
retina instead of on it, so that distant objects can be seen better than near objects.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun abnormal condition in which vision for distant objects is better than for near objects
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Examples
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Consumer psychologists call it hyperopia, the medical term for farsightedness and the opposite of myopia, nearsightedness, because it's the result of people looking too far ahead.
If You Save Too Much — You Might Regret It Later! - The Consumerist 2009
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This problem has been termed hyperopia - the opposite of myopia - because it's caused by people looking too far into the future.
TierneyLab 2009
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This problem has been termed hyperopia - the opposite of myopia - because it's caused by people looking too far into the future.
TierneyLab 2009
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This problem has been termed hyperopia - the opposite of myopia - because it's caused by people looking too far into the future.
TierneyLab 2009
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This problem has been termed hyperopia - the opposite of myopia - because it's caused by people looking too far into the future.
TierneyLab 2009
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This problem has been termed hyperopia - the opposite of myopia - because it's caused by people looking too far into the future.
TierneyLab 2009
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This problem has been termed hyperopia - the opposite of myopia - because it's caused by people looking too far into the future.
TierneyLab 2009
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Conductive Keratoplasty or CK, as it is commonly known, is an eyesight correction method to cure vision related problems such as hyperopia, farsightedness and presbyopia.
EzineArticles 2010
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Being too short-sighted, in the economic sense, is called myopia; the opposite condition, focusing too much on the future, has been dubbed "hyperopia" (the medical term for farsightedness).
SmartMoney.com 2010
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Ran Kivetz, a marketing professor at the Columbia Graduate School of Business, calls this pattern “hyperopia,” in contrast to the “myopia” that behavioral economists traditionally investigate.
john commented on the word hyperopia
“Consumer psychologists call it hyperopia, the medical term for farsightedness and the opposite of myopia, nearsightedness, because it’s the result of people looking too far ahead. They’re so obsessed with preparing for the future that they can’t enjoy the present, and they end up looking back sadly on all their lost opportunities for fun.�?
The New York Times, Oversaving, a Burden for Our Times, by John Tierney, March 23, 2009
March 24, 2009