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cornucopia
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n 1: a goat's horn filled with grain and flowers and fruit
symbolizing prosperity [syn: horn of plenty,
cornucopia]
2: the property of being extremely abundant; "the profusion of
detail"; "the idiomatic richness of English" [syn:
profusion, profuseness, richness, cornucopia]
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myopia
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n 1: (ophthalmology) eyesight abnormality resulting from the
eye's faulty refractive ability; distant objects appear
blurred [syn: myopia, nearsightedness,
shortsightedness] [ant: farsightedness,
hypermetropia, hypermetropy, hyperopia,
longsightedness]
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presbyopia
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n 1: a reduced ability to focus on near objects caused by loss
of elasticity of the crystalline lens after age 45 [syn:
presbyopia, farsightedness]
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utopia
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n 1: a book written by Sir Thomas More (1516) describing the
perfect society on an imaginary island
2: ideally perfect state; especially in its social and political
and moral aspects [ant: dystopia]
3: a work of fiction describing a utopia
4: an imaginary place considered to be perfect or ideal [syn:
Utopia, Zion, Sion]
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dystopia
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n 1: state in which the conditions of life are extremely bad as
from deprivation or oppression or terror [ant: utopia]
2: a work of fiction describing an imaginary place where life is
extremely bad because of deprivation or oppression or terror
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protanopia
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n 1: dichromacy characterized by lowered sensitivity to long
wavelengths of light resulting in an inability to
distinguish red and purplish blue [syn: protanopia, red-
blindness]
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subtopia
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n 1: monotonous urban sprawl of standardized buildings
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tritanopia
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n 1: rare form of dichromacy characterized by a lowered
sensitivity to blue light resulting in an inability to
distinguish blue and yellow [syn: tritanopia, blue-
blindness]
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amblyopia
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n 1: visual impairment without apparent organic pathology
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emmetropia
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n 1: (ophthalmology) the normal refractive condition of the eye
in which there is clear focus of light on the retina
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ethiopia
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n 1: Ethiopia is a republic in northeastern Africa on the Red
Sea; formerly called Abyssinia [syn: Ethiopia, Federal
Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, Yaltopya, Abyssinia]
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hyperopia
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n 1: abnormal condition in which vision for distant objects is
better than for near objects [syn: hyperopia,
hypermetropia, hypermetropy, farsightedness,
longsightedness] [ant: myopia, nearsightedness,
shortsightedness]
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hemianopia
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n 1: blindness in one half of the visual field of one or both
eyes [syn: hemianopia, hemianopsia]
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nyctalopia
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n 1: inability to see clearly in dim light; due to a deficiency
of vitamin A or to a retinal disorder [syn: nyctalopia,
night blindness, moon blindness]
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fruitopia
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comicopia
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polyopia
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