myopia
B1CEFR level
45/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
Medicine noun
A refractive error in which distant objects appear blurred because light focuses in front of the retina.
The child's myopia had progressed enough to warrant a stronger prescription this year.
Business noun
A short-sighted focus on immediate results that neglects longer-term strategic threats.
Marketing myopia led them to defend the product they made rather than the need customers actually had.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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