Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A disorder marked by loss of the ability to write.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A form of cerebral disorder in which there is a partial or total loss of the power of expressing ideas by written symbols.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The absence or loss of the power of expressing ideas by written signs. It is one form of aphasia.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A loss of the ability to write (usually referring to a brain injury)
  • noun The inability to write

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a loss of the ability to write or to express thoughts in writing because of a brain lesion

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[a– + Greek graphein, to write; see gerbh- in Indo-European roots + –ia.]

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Examples

  • Head injuries that harm the parietal lobe can also impair the ability to focus on one object at a time, write words ( '' agraphia ''), and name objects ( '' anomia '').

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] Ashcraft 2010

  • Head injuries that harm the parietal lobe can also impair the ability to focus on one object at a time, write words ( '' agraphia ''), and name objects ( '' anomia '').

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] Ashcraft 2010

  • Head injuries that harm the parietal lobe can also impair the ability to focus on one object at a time, write words ( '' agraphia ''), and name objects ( '' anomia '').

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] Ashcraft 2010

  • (I can quite understand that the reader will rub his eyes at these words and suspect the printer of some sort of agraphia.)

    The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006

  • If the patient is enable to write, the condition is known as agraphia.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • If the patient is enable to write, the condition is known as agraphia.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • [8] Head injuries that harm the parietal lobe can also impair the ability to focus on one object at a time, write words (agraphia), and name objects (anomia).

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] Ashcraft 2010

  • [8] Head injuries that harm the parietal lobe can also impair the ability to focus on one object at a time, write words (agraphia), and name objects (anomia).

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] Ashcraft 2010

  • Head injuries that harm the parietal lobe can also impair the ability to focus on one object at a time, write words (agraphia), and name objects

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] Etissell 2010

  • [8] Head injuries that harm the parietal lobe can also impair the ability to focus on one object at a time, write words (agraphia), and name objects (anomia).

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] Ashcraft 2010

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  • Foreman used this word in an episode once when a patient had trouble writing something.

    June 10, 2012