1. the power or faculty of seeing.
2. the act or fact of seeing.
3. the range of the
eye:
to come within eyesight.
Origin
1150-1200; Middle English; see
eye,
sight Examples from the web for eyesight
- Your eyesight will become fuzzy and you may experience double vision.
- Academics tend to read a lot and have poor eyesight.
- Prescription goggles have solved the problem of swimming with bad eyesight and they're surprisingly inexpensive.
- Hippos have poor eyesight but an excellent sense of smell, and he's caught our scent.
- He suffered from poor eyesight, which he tried to treat by dunking his head into a basin of cold water, eyes open.
- If true, it would mean that the accident that threatened his eyesight happened during the time he was traveling around.
- He constantly battled his boss, artistic society and his own eyesight to create intricate scenes inspired by old bones.
- Giving himself a crash course in the science of camouflage and eyesight, he discovered that digital camo made a lot of sense.
- The temptation to skip is almost irresistible, when wisdom can be purchased only at the expense of eyesight.
- Since aging leads to diminished eyesight, these hallucinations are particularly common among the old.
British Dictionary definitions for eyesight
noun 1. the ability to see; faculty of sight
Word Origin and History for eyesight
eyesight in Medicine
eyesight eye·sight (ī'sīt')
n.
The faculty of sight; vision.
Range of vision; view.