myopia

n. 1 short-sightedness. 2 lack of imagination or insight.  myopic adj. Myopically adv. [greek muo shut, ops eye]

n. Nearsightedness; shortsightedness; a condition of the eye in which the rays from distant object are brought to a focus before they reach the retina, and hence form an indistinct image; while the rays from very near objects are normally converged so as to produce a distinct image. It is corrected by the use of a concave lens.