Asthenopia

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  • noun. Weakness or fatigue of the eyes, usually accompanied by headache and dimming of vision.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Weakness of the eyes.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Weakness of sight.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. An ophthalmological condition that manifests itself through nonspecific symptoms such as fatigue, red eyes, eye strain, pain in or around the eyes, blurred vision, headache and occasional double vision.
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  • noun. a tiredness of the eyes caused by prolonged close work by a person with an uncorrected vision problem
  • Word Usage
    "The asthenopia which is almost constantly seen in such cases added to her trials, because reading had to be abandoned, and so at last, despite unusual vigor of character, she gave way to utter despair, and became at times emotional and morbid in her views of life."
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    eyestrain