Lexic.us

Definition of Sightedness

1. Noun. Normal use of the faculty of vision.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sightedness

Literary usage of Sightedness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Defects of Vision and Hearing in the Public Schools: A Handbook for the Use by Joseph Whitefield Smith (1904)
"By near-sightedness we mean a condition in which the diameter of the globe ... Far-sightedness is better adapted for distant vision, near- sightedness for ..."

2. Physiology and laws of health by Edward Jarvis (1868)
"Far-sightedness.—Eye suffers with other Organs.— Needs Cleanliness. — Bathing. — Pure Air. ... Near-sightedness is one of the most common defects of vision. ..."

3. A Treatise on the Diseases of the Eye by William Lawrence (1833)
"The opposite state of the eye is called presbyopia, or far-sightedness ; the former word being derived from trp€c7/3uc, an old man, because this state of ..."

4. The Eye in Health and Disease: Being a Series of Articles on the Anatomy and by Benjamin Joy Jeffries (1871)
"... namely, over-sightedness, or hypermetropia. It is a source of much evil when not understood, and corrected by the proper spectacles. ..."

5. The Homoeopathic domestic physician by Constantine Hering (1904)
"Near-sightedness depends on a malformation of the eye, in which the eyeball is too long from before backward. This condition is sometimes inherited, ..."

6. The Mother's Medical Guide in Children's Diseases by William Andrus Alcott (1845)
"Short- sightedness. AMID the blessings of a high state of civilization we have a few evils intermingled; of which myopia, or short-sightedness, is one. ..."

Other Resources: