sightnoun(ABILITY TO SEE)

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Eyesight, glasses & lenses
accommodative
afterimage
age-related macular degeneration
amaurosis
amblyopia
eyeglasses
glaucoma
lenticular
limbus
long-sighted
long-sightedness
macula
macula lutea
ocular
oculist
ophthalmology
varifocals
wet macular degeneration
wraparounds
yellow spot

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The senses in general

eyesight | American Dictionary

eyesight
noun[ U ]
us/ˈɑɪˌsɑɪt/
the ability to see:
Her eyesight is not as good as it used to be.

Examples of eyesight

eyesight
The majority of its clients are older people whose problems arise from physical dif ficulties with mobility, eyesight, hearing and continence.
The latter informant had restricted eyesight and was on the verge of moving to a private residential home at the time of interview.
His health had deteriorated and his eyesight, sadly, was failing, but he was able to retain many of his interests until his brief final illness.
With the help of binoculars, bird watchers may see and identify birds beyond the range of normal human eyesight.
But altruistic behavior as such, according to biological theory, would depend (as eyesight depends) much more on genes than on experience.
If only, he complains, acoustics could do for the hearing what optics can to improve eyesight.
More than half the sample experienced arthritis or rheumatism, poor eyesight, problems with feet or walking, dental problems, headaches and breathlessness after effort.
He had been a keen vocalist, and was a flautist till his eyesight failed him.
Now he reached out to staff and fellow residents, and was only frustrated that his failing eyesight made this difficult.
The introduction of fees for eyesight testing in this relatively low-income group may have contributed to delays in spectacle updating.
Pepys may be untypical in that he spent the later years of the diary worrying about his poor eyesight, which he connected with reading.
There were significant improvements in exercise, diet and the uptake of influenza vaccines and eyesight tests, but slighter improvements in wellbeing.
Enjoying good eyesight is primarily a subjectively experienced state (although it can also be made observable or objective through tests).
This is not surprising when one considers the proportion who reported problems associated with arthritis and with eyesight.
But we inherit good eyesight or bad eyesight.
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