n.
Pain and fatigue of the eyes, often accompanied by headache, resulting from prolonged use of the eyes, uncorrected defects of vision, or an imbalance of the eye muscles.
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The noun has one meaning:
Meaning #1:
a tiredness of the eyes caused by prolonged close work by a person with an uncorrected vision problem
Synonym: asthenopia
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