Eyesight is how well a person can see. Sharp, failing, or corrected by glasses.
It is a mass noun and it never takes a plural. The word belongs to opticians and to the driving test, where reading a number plate at a distance is the standard check. Good eyesight and failing eyesight are the common phrases. Vision means much the same thing but reaches further, since vision also means imagination and foresight, which eyesight never does. Sight on its own covers both.
1nouneyesightThe ability to see, and how well you do it.
“His eyesight had been getting worse for years.”
Middle English
eiȝesiht
English, today
eyesight
From Middle English eiȝesiht, ieȝesihte, ehsihthe, eihsihthe, eȝhesihthe, equivalent to eye + sight.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA