Definitions for myopias

myopias my·o·pi·a

Spelling: [mahy-oh-pee-uh]
IPA: /maɪˈoʊ pi ə/

Myopias is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 175 anagrams from letters in myopias (aimopsy).

Definitions for myopias

noun

  1. Ophthalmology. a condition of the eye in which parallel rays are focused in front of the retina, objects being seen distinctly only when near to the eye; nearsightedness (opposed to hyperopia).
  2. lack of foresight or discernment; obtuseness.
  3. narrow-mindedness; intolerance.

Origin of myopias

1685-95; New Latin Greek myōpía, equivalent to myōp- (stem of mýōps) near-sighted, literally, blinking (mý(ein) to shut + ṓps eye) + -ia -ia

Examples for myopias

The myopia, in these cases, is not the cause of the squint, but only a favouring circumstance.

As, however, in spite of this, myopia is present in about 60 per cent.

The most prevalent of these maladies are spinal curvature and myopia.

It is, at the very least, as difficult to become a member of myopia as of the Royal and Ancient.

I should like to have asked your opinion about that plan of the myopia golf links.

It is otherwise with the relative divergence which is developed in consequence of myopia.

myopia, I am told, will use the black ball with joy when there is a candidate at the doors.

The dignity of myopia exudes from the timbers of its long, quaint club-house.

The author's view is evidently distorted by biographer's myopia.

This myopia was destined to have the most vital influence on his art.

Word Value for myopias
Scrable

13

Words with friends

14

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