myopia

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

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

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.

• (seeing disorder): shortsightedness, nearsightedness

• hyperopia, farsightedness

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

myopia f (uncountable)

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