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strabismus

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • /stɹəˈbɪzməs/
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1

noun

Meaning 1

A defect of vision in which one eye cannot focus with the other on an object because of imbalance of the eye muscles; a squint.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable, usually

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

abnormal alignment of one or both eyes

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: squint

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: abnormality, abnormalcy

Narrower terms: cross-eye, crossed eye, convergent strabismus, esotropia, walleye, divergent strabismus, exotropia

History

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin strabismus, from Ancient Greek στραβισμός (strabismós), from στραβίζω (strabízō, “to squint”), from στραβός (strabós, “squinting”) (whence the synonymous Latin strabus).

Across languages

Translations

30 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Armenian: շլություն (šlutʻyun) — defect of vision
  • Bulgarian: кривогледство (krivogledstvo) — defect of vision
  • Catalan: estrabisme — defect of vision
  • Chinese Mandarin: 斜視 /斜视 (xiéshì) — defect of vision
  • Czech: šilhavost — defect of vision
  • Esperanto: strabismo — defect of vision
  • Finnish: karsastus — defect of vision
  • Finnish: strabismi — defect of vision
  • French: strabisme — defect of vision
  • German: Strabismus — defect of vision
  • Greek: στραβισμός (stravismós) — defect of vision
  • Hungarian: kancsalság — defect of vision
  • Ido: strabeso — defect of vision
  • Italian: strabismo — defect of vision
  • Japanese: 斜視 (shashi) — defect of vision
  • Latin: strabismus — defect of vision
  • Malayalam: കോങ്കണ്ണ് (kōṅkaṇṇŭ) — defect of vision
  • Māori: karu kōrapa — defect of vision
  • Norwegian Bokmål: skjeling — defect of vision
  • Polish: zez — defect of vision
  • Portuguese: estrabismo — defect of vision
  • Russian: косогла́зие (kosoglázije) — defect of vision
  • Russian: страби́зм (strabízm) — defect of vision
  • Spanish: estrabismo — defect of vision
  • Swedish: skelning — defect of vision
  • Swedish: strabism — defect of vision
  • Tamil: மாறுகண் (māṟukaṇ) — defect of vision
  • Turkish: strabismus — defect of vision
  • Turkish: şaşılık — defect of vision
  • Ottoman Turkish: شاشیلق (şaşılık) — defect of vision