Narrow-sightedness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being narrow-sighted. uncountable

    "The events of universal history are not to be reckoned upon either by the short-sightedness of the Philistine or by the narrow-sightedness of the student."

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"The events of universal history are not to be reckoned upon either by the short-sightedness of the Philistine or by the narrow-sightedness of the student."

Etymology

From narrow-sighted + -ness.

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