alexia

See also: Alexia

English

Etymology

Ancient Greek ἀ (a, “not”) + λέξις (léxis, “speech”) + English -ia.

Pronunciation

(US) enPR: ə-lĕk'-sē-ə, IPA^(key): /ə.ˈlɛk.si.ə/

Noun

alexia (countable and uncountable, plural alexias)

(psychiatry) Word blindness, the inability, due to a cerebral disorder, to comprehend or understand writing.

Related terms

alexic

Translations

word blindness

Catalan: alèxia (ca) f
Dutch: alexie f
Finnish: aleksia (fi)
French: alexie (fr) f

Greek: αλεξία (el) f (alexía)
Portuguese: alexia f
Turkish: aleksi (tr)

Further reading

Dyslexia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Portuguese

Noun

alexia f (uncountable)

(psychiatry) alexia (inability to understand writing)

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