noun
- nearsightedness; a condition in which distant objects appear blurred
- lack of foresight or intellectual insight; narrow or short-sighted thinking
Usage: medical
Usage: figurative
Examples
- His myopy required him to wear thick glasses to see clearly.
- The doctor diagnosed her with severe myopy during the eye exam.
- Without her contacts, myopy made reading the blackboard impossible.
- The politician’s myopy prevented him from seeing the long-term consequences.
- Corporate myopy led to decisions that hurt the company’s future.
- Her intellectual myopy blinded her to other perspectives on the issue.