Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for SHORT-SIGHT'ED-NESS
SHORT-SIGHT'ED-NESS, n.
- A defect in vision, consisting in the inability to see things at a distance, or at the distance to which the sight ordinarily extends.
- Defective or limited intellectual sight; inability to see far into futurity or into things deep or abstruse. – Addison.
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