hemeralopia

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: hem=er=a=lo=pi=a

CIDE DICTIONARY

hemeralopia, n. [NL., fr. Gr. , the opposite of ; day + of . See Nyctalopia.].

 A disease of the eyes, in consequence of which a person can see clearly or without pain only by daylight or a strong artificial light; day sight.  [1913 Webster]
" Some writers (as Quain) use the word in the opposite sense, i. e., day blindness. See Nyctalopia."  [1913 Webster]

ROGET THESAURUS

hemeralopia

Dimsightedness

N dimsightedness, dim sight, dull sight half sight, short sight, near sight, long sight, double sight, astigmatic sight, failing sight, dimsightedness, purblindness, lippitude, myopia, presbyopia, confusion of vision, astigmatism, color blindness, chromato pseudo blepsis, Daltonism, nyctalopia, strabismus, strabism, squint, blearedness, day blindness, hemeralopia, nystagmus, xanthocyanopia, xanthopsia, cast in the eye, swivel eye, goggle-eyes, obliquity of vision, winking, nictitation, blinkard, albino, dizziness, swimming, scotomy, cataract, ophthalmia, blinker, screen, deceptio visus, refraction, distortion, illusion, false light, anamorphosis, virtual image, spectrum, mirage, looming, phasma, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, vision, specter, apparition, ghost, ignis fatuus, specter of the Brocken, magic mirror, magic lantern, mirror lens, dim-sighted, myopic, presbyopic, astigmatic, moon-eyed, mope-eyed, blear-eyed, goggle-eyed, gooseberry-eyed, one-eyed, blind of one eye, monoculous, half-blind, purblind, cock-eyed, dim-eyed, mole- eyed, dichroic, blind as a bat, winking.