yksisilmäinen

Yksisilmäinen is a Finnish adjective meaning having one eye. It describes a person, animal, or object that has only a single eye, due to congenital absence, injury, or loss of an eye, and can also refer to monocular vision in medical or descriptive contexts. In figurative use it can characterize a narrow or biased viewpoint, for example in the phrase yksisilmäinen näkemys, meaning a one-eyed or one-sided view.

The word is formed from the stem yksi or yksi (one) combined with silmä (eye) and the adjectival suffix -nen, producing a word that agrees with the noun it modifies in number and case. For instance: yksisilmäinen mies, yksisilmäinen koira. The form changes with grammatical case in the same way as other Finnish adjectives (yksisilmäisen, yksisilmäisellä, etc.).

In everyday language, yksisilmäinen is most often used literally to describe someone or something with one eye. It can also appear in metaphorical expressions to critique partiality or bias in viewpoint or judgment. While the term is descriptive rather than clinical, precise medical terminology for a person with monocular vision would typically be expressed with more technical language within appropriate contexts.

See also: monocular vision, language of anatomy, Finnish adjectives.