Meanings
nounanoopsia (uncountable)
- uncountablemedicineA condition in which one eye gazes upward while the other looks straight ahead.
The man who had been standing in the doorway stepped forward to greet them. No pheretrer he! His luteous face, scrobiculate by some unspeakable disease, was further disfigured by an anoopsia.
1958 May 9, Strix [pseudonym], “English Spoken Here”, in The Spectator, volume 200, number 6776, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 585, column 2
Origin
From ano- (“upwards”) + -opsia.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
APA
anoopsia. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/anoopsia
MLA
“anoopsia.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/anoopsia. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “anoopsia,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/anoopsia.
Source: anoopsia on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.