amimia

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English

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Etymology

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From a- +‎ German Mimik (facial expressions) +‎ -ia.

Noun

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amimia (countable and uncountable, plural amimias)

  1. (medicine) inability to express oneself using facial expressions
    • 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
      Parkinsonism, at its severest, presents itself as an akinetic amimia (as opposed to certain cortical disorders which are amimic akinesias).
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Polish

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Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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From a- +‎ Ancient Greek μῑμέομαι (mīméomai) +‎ -ia.[1] First attested in 1879.[2]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /aˈmi.mja/
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  • Rhymes: -imja
  • Syllabification: a‧mi‧mia

Noun

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amimia f

  1. (pathology) amimia

Declension

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adjective
adverb
noun

References

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  1. ^ Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “amimia”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
  2. ^ Adolf Kussmaul (1879) Zboczenia mowy : próba patologii mowy : przekład dzieła: Die Störungen der Sprache, Versuch einer Pathologie der Sprache[1] (in Polish), page V

Further reading

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  • amimia in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • amimia in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego

Portuguese

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Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: a‧mi‧mi‧a

Noun

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amimia f (uncountable)

  1. (psychiatry) amimia (inability to express oneself using gestures)