What do you call people who wears glasses?

A person wearing a pair of spectacles is either called “bespectacled” or someone with a pair of spectacles on. Note : The word, “spectacle”, again, means impressive to look at or memorable. The words, “spectacle”, “spectacles”, “spectacular” and “bespectacled”, have different meanings.

How common is it for people to wear glasses?

The percentage of people wearing glasses (57 percent) is much higher than the percentage of contact lens wearers (12 percent). Nine percent of people indicate to use both. Contact lens wearers are generally young. Among people wearing glasses, 54 percent wear them on a more or less full-time basis.

What are examples of cultural stereotypes?

Stereotypes can be linked to any type of cultural membership, such as nationality, religion, gender, race, or age. Also, stereotypes may be positive or negative. For example, a positive stereotype would be “Participants from Country Y are good students” or “Host families in Country Z are great hosts to participants.”

What to call a girl who wears glasses?

Four-eyes is a taunt, but “Specs” (as I would spell it) is an acceptable nickname.

Are people who don’t wear glasses more attractive?

It seems that those not wearing glasses, or wearing contact lenses look more attractive to others as well as more likeable.

Does wearing glasses determine your personality?

Many people assume those who wear glasses are quiet, shy or reserved. For some reason, putting one object on your face to improve your vision correlates to an individual’s personality. While this could well be the personality of someone who wears glasses, it is not true for all glasses-wearers.

Is it bad to wear glasses as a nerd?

Why the nerd stereotype is still associated with wearing glasses. A recent study (via The British Psychological Society) found that people who wear glasses are generally considered less attractive than those who don’t suffer the ignominy of an astigmatism plus short sightedness.

Does wearing glasses make you smarter?

“Social psychology has consistently demonstrated that when people are shown images of people with glasses, they find them to be more intelligent, hardworking, and successful, but less active, outgoing, or attractive than people with similar characteristics who do not wear glasses.”