Definition of Eyesight

1. Noun. Normal use of the faculty of vision.

Exact synonyms: Seeing, Sightedness
Generic synonyms: Sight, Vision, Visual Modality, Visual Sense
Derivative terms: See, See, Seeing, Sighted

Definition of Eyesight

1. n. Sight of the eye; the sense of seeing; view; observation.

Definition of Eyesight

1. Noun. Vision or the faculty of sight ¹

2. Noun. View or the range of vision ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Eyesight

1. the ability to see [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Eyesight

eyeservant
eyeservants
eyeservice
eyeservices
eyesful
eyeshade
eyeshades
eyeshadow
eyeshadows
eyeshield
eyeshields
eyeshine
eyeshines
eyeshot
eyeshots
eyesight (current term)
eyesights
eyeslit
eyeslits
eyesocket
eyesockets
eyesome
eyesore
eyesores
eyesplice
eyesplices
eyespot
eyespots
eyespotted
eyestalk

Literary usage of Eyesight

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1916)
"... room with the testator, although it might be believed that, because of the testator's eyesight being dim. he did not actually see the act of writing. ..."

2. Medical Inspection of Schools by Luther Halsey Gulick, Leonard Porter Ayres (1909)
"eyesight TESTS CONDUCTED BY THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF CONNECTICUT eyesight tests are conducted by the State Board of Education of Connecticut under ..."

3. School Hygiene by Edward Richard Shaw (1901)
"CHAPTER IX eyesight AND HEARING Adequate lighting of the schoolroom not the only ... School life impairs more or less the eyesight of the greater number of ..."

4. Eugenics Laboratory Memoirs by Galton Laboratory for National Eugenics (1907)
"For example, the alcoholism of parents if productive of general degeneracy in the children, would be likely to be marked by defective filial eyesight. ..."

5. Dansk-norsk-engelsk Ordbog by Johannes Magnussen (1902)
"Syn [n] sight, eyesight, [faculty of] vision, eye[s]; [noget, man ser eller ... -punk! point of view, -rand horizon, -sans sense of sight, eyesight, ..."

6. Report of the Annual Meeting (1904)
"eyesight in School Children. The Sub-Committee appointed to inquire into the recorded investigations as to (A) the causes of defective eyesight in school ..."

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