farsightedness

English

Etymology

From farsighted +‎ -ness.

Pronunciation

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Noun

farsightedness (uncountable)

1. (pathology) The condition of being unable to focus on near objects; presbyopia.
2. The quality of being considerate about what might happen in the future.

Alternative forms

• far-sightedness

Synonyms

• hyperopia (1)
• longsightedness (1,2)

Antonyms

• myopia
• shortsightedness (1,2)

Translations

condition of being unable to focus on near objects

• Afrikaans: versiendheid, hipermetropie
• Arabic: مَدَّ النَّظَرِ m (madda n-naẓari)
• Armenian: հեռատեսություն (hy) (heṙatesutʻyun)
• Azerbaijani: uzaqgörənlik
• Basque: hipermetropia
• Belarusian: дальназоркасць f (dalʹnazórkascʹ), гіперметрапія f (hipjermjetrapija)
• Bulgarian: далекогледство (bg) (dalekogledstvo)
• Catalan: hipermetropia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 遠視 / 远视 (zh) (yuǎnshì), 遠視眼 / 远视眼 (zh) (yuǎnshìyǎn)

• Czech: dalekozrakost (cs) f
• Danish: langsynethed c
• Dutch: verziendheid (nl) f
• Esperanto: hipermetropio
• Estonian: kaugelenägevus
• Finnish: kaukonäköisyys (fi), kaukotaittoisuus (fi)
• French: hypermétropie (fr) f
• Galician: hipermetropía (gl) f
• Georgian: შორსმხედველობა (šorsmxedveloba)
• German: Weitsichtigkeit (de) f
• Greek: υπερμετρωπία (el) f (ypermetropía)
• Hebrew: רוחק ראייה f (róhaq r'iyá)
• Hungarian: távollátás (hu), túllátás (hu)
• Icelandic: fjærsýni f
• Indonesian: rabun dekat (id)
• Irish: hipearóipe f
• Italian: ipermetropia (it) f
• Japanese: 遠視 (ja) (えんし, enshi)
• Korean: 원시 (ko) (wonsi)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: dûrbînî (ku)

• Latvian: tālredzība f, hipermetropija f
• Lithuanian: toliaregystė f
• Malay: rabun dekat
• Norwegian: hypermetropi
• Persian: دوربینی (fa) (dur-bini)
• Polish: nadwzroczność (pl) f
• Portuguese: hipermetropia (pt) f
• Romanian: hipermetropie (ro) f
• Russian: дальнозо́ркость (ru) f (dalʹnozórkostʹ), гиперметропи́я (ru) f (gipermetropíja)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: далековидност f, далековидост f

  Roman: dalekovidnost (sh) f, dalekovidost (sh) f

• Slovak: ďalekozrakosť f
• Slovene: daljnovidnost f
• Spanish: hipermetropía (es) f
• Swedish: översynthet c, långsynthet (sv), hyperopi (sv), hypermetropi (sv)
• Thai: สายตายาว (sǎai-dtaa-yaao)
• Turkish: hipermetropi
• Ukrainian: далекозорість f (dalekozoristʹ), гіперметропія f (hipermetropija)
• Vietnamese: viễn thị (vi)

quality of being considerate about what might happen in the future

• Azerbaijani: uzaqgörənlik
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 眼光遠大 / 眼光远大 (yǎnguāng yuǎndà), 先見之明 / 先见之明 (zh) (xiānjiànzhīmíng), 遠見 / 远见 (zh) (yuǎnjiàn), 洞察力 (zh) (dòngchálì)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: kaukonäköisyys (fi), kaukokatseisuus (fi)
• German: Weitsichtigkeit (de) f, Weitblick m, Weitsicht (de) f
• Hungarian: előrelátás (hu)
• Irish: fadbhreathnaitheacht f
• Italian: lungimiranza (it) f
• Polish: dalekowzroczność (pl) f
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: дальнови́дность (ru) f (dalʹnovídnostʹ)