"short-sightedness" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Etymology: From short-sighted + -ness. Etymology templates: {{affix|en|short-sighted|-ness}} short-sighted + -ness Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} short-sightedness (uncountable)
  1. Myopia: impairment of vision's acuity for distant objects. Tags: uncountable Synonyms: nearsightedness
    Sense id: en-short-sightedness-en-noun--7HdjX-T
  2. The propensity of a person to ignore long-term goals in favor of short-term gains. Tags: uncountable Synonyms: short-termism Translations (the propensity of a person to ignore long-term goals in favor of short-term gains): 短視 (Chinese Mandarin), 短视 (duǎnshì) (Chinese Mandarin), Kurzsichtigkeit [feminine] (German), cortoplacismo [masculine] (Spanish), estrechez de miras [feminine] (Spanish), falta de visión (Spanish), kortsiktighet [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-short-sightedness-en-noun-2GSaQVQW Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ness Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 30 70 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ness: 32 68 Disambiguation of 'the propensity of a person to ignore long-term goals in favor of short-term gains': 2 98
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: shortsightedness

Alternative forms

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      "sense": "the propensity of a person to ignore long-term goals in favor of short-term gains",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "estrechez de miras"
    },
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}

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