Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Loss of the ability to read, usually caused by brain lesions.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Inability to read, as the result of a morbid or diseased condition of nervous centers not involving loss of sight; word-blindness; text-blindness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun As used by some, inability to read aloud, due to brain disease.
- noun More commonly, inability, due to brain disease, to understand written or printed symbols although they can be seen, as in case of word blindness.
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- noun psychiatry The
inability , due to acerebral disorder , tocomprehend orunderstand writing.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun inability to perceive written words
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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When the disability is severe, it is termed alexia.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993
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Unintelligible there's even a Greek name for it in people, called alexia sine agrafia, lost of ability to read but not of ability to write.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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Unintelligible there's even a Greek name for it in people, called alexia sine agrafia, lost of ability to read but not of ability to write.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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Yeah, "alexia" is the complete inability to read, as opposed to dyslexia, which is a difficulty while reading.
The World's Most Cheerful Hanging Jen 2008
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On May 10th 2009, alexia wrote: that is just nasty. cant belive chris is with that girl
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Don't follow alexia or damien mulley on twitter either, they're the 'waldorf and statler' of web2. 0 - Even if you don't follow the A-Lister/meme-of-the-day, their witty commentary compels you to read scoble/winer et al just to see what lexia/mulley are talking about.
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Oliver Sacks' most recent New Yorkerarticle, about people who suffer from alexia, or loss of the ability to recognize written language, puts the wondrousness and complexity of that last brain function into perspective.
Marian Salzman: Headstrong, Part II: The Creative Process Marian Salzman 2010
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(Oliver Sacks 'most recent New Yorker article, about people who suffer from alexia, or loss of the ability to recognize written language, puts the wondrousness and complexity of that last brain function into perspective.)
Marian Salzman: Headstrong, Part II: The Creative Process 2010
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(Oliver Sacks 'most recent New Yorker article, about people who suffer from alexia, or loss of the ability to recognize written language, puts the wondrousness and complexity of that last brain function into perspective.)
Marian Salzman: Headstrong, Part II: The Creative Process 2010
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Ben – forgot to take his meds again … he seems to suffer from severe mental disorders … as in alexia Loss of a previously intact ability to grasp the meaning of written or printed words and sentences. alogia An impoverishment in thinking that is inferred from observing speech and language behavior.
hernesheir commented on the word alexia
If you can read this you don't have it.
June 15, 2011