Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for LONG-SIGHT'ED-NESS
LONG-SIGHT'ED-NESS, n.
- The faculty of seeing objects at a great distance.
- In medicine, presbyopy; that defect of sight by which objects near at hand are seen confusedly, but at remoter distances distinctly. – Hooper.
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