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I always thought the term was near-sighted. "Short-sighted" means "done without consideration for the future."
by pgcj_poster 7y ago
I always thought the term was near-sighted. "Short-sighted" means "done without consideration for the future."
- eindiran 7y agoIn the US, most people do say "near-sighted", but in the UK "short-sighted" is common. For example, on the NHS website: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Short-sightedness/ https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Short-sightedness/ The reason you can use "short-sighted" as an adjective to suggest that someone isn't thinking about the future is by analogy to this condition. The same thing is true for "myopic".