"alexia" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /əˈlɛk.si.ə/ [US] Forms: alexias [plural]
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, “not”) + λέξις (léxis, “speech”) + -ia. Etymology templates: {{der|en|grc|-}} Ancient Greek, {{af|grc|ἀ-|λέξις|nocat=1|t1=not|t2=speech}} ἀ- (a-, “not”) + λέξις (léxis, “speech”), {{suf|en||ia}} + -ia Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} alexia (countable and uncountable, plural alexias)
  1. (psychiatry) Word blindness, the inability, due to a cerebral disorder, to comprehend or understand writing. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Psychiatry Hypernyms: dyslexia Related terms: alexic Translations (type of word blindness): aleksie (Afrikaans), woordblindheid (Afrikaans), alèxia [feminine] (Catalan), alexie [feminine] (Czech), alexie [feminine] (Dutch), aleksio (Esperanto), aleksia (Finnish), alexie [feminine] (French), ალექსია (aleksia) (Georgian), αλεξία (alexía) [feminine] (Greek), aleksja [feminine] (Polish), alexia [feminine] (Portuguese), alexi [common-gender] (Swedish), aleksi (Turkish)

Inflected forms

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