alexia

See also: Alexia, and Alexía

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

alexia (countable and uncountable, plural alexias)

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

Related terms

• alexic

Hypernyms

• dyslexia

Translations

type of word blindness

• Catalan: alèxia (ca) f
• Dutch: alexie f
• Finnish: aleksia (fi)
• French: alexie (fr) f
• Georgian: ალექსია (ka) (aleksia)
• Greek: αλεξία f (alexía)
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• Polish: aleksja (pl) f
• Portuguese: alexia f
• Turkish: aleksi (tr)

Further reading

• Dyslexia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Portuguese

Noun

alexia f (uncountable)

1. (psychiatry) alexia (inability to understand writing)