short-sightedness

Noun

Meaning

Myopia: impairment of vision's acuity for distant objects.
Synonym: nearsightedness

The propensity of a person to ignore long-term goals in favor of short-term gains.
Synonym: short-termism

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Alternative names

short sightedness

Synonyms

imprudence myopia nearsightedness improvidence short-sighted shortsightedness sharp-sightedness

Antonyms

foresight farsightedness hyperopia

Examples

They would fail. We would always fail. We weren't built to do anything but fail. We had the wrong kind of motives and we couldn't change them. We had a built-in short-sightedness and an inherent selfishness and a self-concern that made it impossible to step out of the little human rut we traveled. Clifford D. Simak

Letting go at the top is not an act against perfection, but against short-sightedness. Kevin Kelly (editor)

Idiots. They were losing everything because of their short-sightedness. Maybe they deserved to lose it. Karl Schroeder

It’s okay for the oldies – who, until this year’s bushfire conflagration, fondly imagined they wouldn’t live long enough to suffer the consequences of their selfish short-sightedness. Source: Internet

HQ Trivia’s ex-host says the company shut down because of a ‚lethal cocktail of incompetence, arrogance, short-sightedness & sociopathic delusion‘ Source: Internet

It is the fault of your short-sightedness, not of the essence of things, if you believe you see land somewhere in the ocean of becoming and passing-away. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

short-shoot short-sighted short-sightedly short-sleeved short-snouted short-snouted porpoise