heteromyopia
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The situation in which interspecific competition occurs over shorter distances than intraspecific competition.
Uncountable
Etymology
From hetero- + myopia, as the animals involved are metaphorically short-sighted in their view of other species.