"myopia" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /maɪˈəʊ.pɪ.ə/ [UK], /maɪˈoʊ.pi.ə/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-myopia.wav [Southern-England], En-us-myopia.ogg [US] Forms: myopias [plural]
Rhymes: -əʊpiə Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek μυωπία (muōpía, “shortsightedness”), from μύω (múō, “to shut, close”) + ὤψ (ṓps, “eye”) + -ία (-ía). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|grc|μυωπία||shortsightedness}} Ancient Greek μυωπία (muōpía, “shortsightedness”), {{af|grc|μύω|ὤψ|-ία|nocat=1|t1=to shut, close|t2=eye}} μύω (múō, “to shut, close”) + ὤψ (ṓps, “eye”) + -ία (-ía) Head templates: {{en-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. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Pathology, Vision Synonyms: shortsightedness, nearsightedness
    Sense id: en-myopia-en-noun-hITIX6TK Disambiguation of Vision: 92 8 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -ia, English terms suffixed with -opia Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 91 9 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 91 9 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ia: 77 23 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -opia: 77 23 Topics: medicine, pathology, sciences
  2. (figurative) A lack of imagination, discernment or long-range perspective in thinking or planning. Tags: countable, figuratively, uncountable Translations (lack of imagination, discernment or long-range perspective in thinking or planning): կարճատեսություն (karčatesutʻyun) (Armenian), kortzichtigheid [feminine] (Dutch), lyhytnäköisyys (Finnish), myope [feminine, masculine] (French), Kurzsichtigkeit [feminine] (German), кратковидост (kratkovidost) [feminine] (Macedonian), кусогледост (kusogledost) [feminine] (Macedonian), близору́кость (blizorúkostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), krátkozrakosť (Slovak), miopía [feminine] (Spanish), kortsiktighet [common-gender] (Swedish), sự thiển cận (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-myopia-en-noun-OjiNbUl1 Disambiguation of 'lack of imagination, discernment or long-range perspective in thinking or planning': 2 98
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: compound myopia, heteromyopia, isomyopia, myope, myopiagenic, myopic, myopically, pseudomyopia, simple myopia Related terms: astigmatism, emmetropia

Noun [Portuguese]

Head templates: {{pt-noun|f|-}} myopia f (uncountable)
  1. Pre-reform spelling (until Brazil 1943/Portugal 1911) of miopia. Tags: feminine, uncountable
    Sense id: en-myopia-pt-noun-ixgtODja Categories (other): Portuguese entries with incorrect language header

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      "sense": "lack of imagination, discernment or long-range perspective in thinking or planning",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "miopía"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "lack of imagination, discernment or long-range perspective in thinking or planning",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "kortsiktighet"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "lack of imagination, discernment or long-range perspective in thinking or planning",
      "word": "sự thiển cận"
    }
  ],
  "word": "myopia"
}

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "f",
        "2": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "myopia f (uncountable)",
      "name": "pt-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Portuguese",
  "lang_code": "pt",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Portuguese archaic forms",
        "Portuguese entries with incorrect language header",
        "Portuguese feminine nouns",
        "Portuguese lemmas",
        "Portuguese nouns",
        "Portuguese terms spelled with Y",
        "Portuguese uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Pre-reform spelling (until Brazil 1943/Portugal 1911) of miopia."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "miopia",
          "miopia#Portuguese"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "myopia"
}

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