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1. Do these sentences make sense:a) "She lacks eyesight."b) "She's short-sighted."Note: By this, I mean that her sense of sight is limited (although I'm not specifying what her visual defect is).2. By the way, is it correct to say 'visual defect' (such as myopia, hypermetropia, or astigmatism).

Clive · Accepted Answer

1. Do these sentences make sense:

a) "She lackseyesight." Not natural. Sounds like she is blind.

b) "She's short-sighted." OK

Note: By this, I mean that her sense of sight is limited (although I'm not specifying what her visual defect is).

2. By the way, is it correct to say 'visual defect' (such as myopia, hypermetropia, or astigmatism).

People who work in the field of vision often use technical terms eg refractive errors, but ordinary people usually just say eg eye problems.

Very generally, I think people today don't like to be told they have a defect. It's seen as a negative word. Instead, people often use words like an issue, a challenge, a problem.

Clive

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Christine Christieb) "She's short-sighted."Note: By this, I mean that her sense of sight is limited (although I'm not specifying what her visual defect is).

No. In the US, that is always used figuratively to mean that she doesn't plan very far ahead. Literally, it is the British word for US "nearsighted", unable to see far away very well.

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