hyperopia
noun
hyperopia is a noun meaning “A disorder of the vision where the eye focuses images behind the retina instead of on it, so that distant objects can be seen better than near objects” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-Y-P-E-R-O-P-I-A and has 5 syllables, and it appears about once in every 23 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of hyperopia is hyperopias.
What does hyperopia mean?
noun
- 1
A disorder of the vision where the eye focuses images behind the retina instead of on it, so that distant objects can be seen better than near objects.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce hyperopia?
Hyperopia has 5 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of hyperopia
- hyperopias plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is hyperopia?
Hyperopia appears about once in every 23 million words in written English, the 146,811th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does hyperopia come from?
From hyper- + -opia.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).