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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

LONG-SIGHTEDNESS

n. 1. The faculty of seeing objects at a great distance.
2. In medicine, presbyopy; that defect of sight by which objects near at hand are seen confusedly, but at remoter distances distinctly.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

LONG-SIGHTEDNESS

LONG-SIGHTEDNESS Long "-sight `ed *ness, n.

 

1. The state or condition of being long-sighted; hence, sagacity; shrewdness.

 

2. (Med. )

 

Defn: See Hypermetropia.