I've always thought that Short-sighted means that you fail to look far into the future when planning. I thought near-sighted meant that your focusing ability in your eyes becomes less powerful as you move further from the object you are looking at.
I noticed thesaurus.com has them as essentially meaning the same thing; multiple things.
What is the correct definitions of these phrases?
Best Answer
The NOAD reports that short-sighted is
Nearsighted is reported to mean unable to see things clearly unless they are relatively close to the eyes, owing to the focusing of rays of light by the eye at a point in front of the retina.
In American English, the words have two different meaning.