Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A disorder marked by loss of the ability to write.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A form of cerebral disorder in which there is a partial or total loss of the power of expressing ideas by written symbols.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The absence or loss of the power of expressing ideas by written signs. It is one form of aphasia.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a loss of the ability to write or to express thoughts in writing because of a brain lesion
Etymologies
- a-1 + Greek graphein, to write; see gerbh- in Indo-European roots + -ia1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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 '').”
“(I can quite understand that the reader will rub his eyes at these words and suspect the printer of some sort of agraphia.)”
“If the patient is enable to write, the condition is known as agraphia.”
“[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).”
“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”
“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).”
“[10] 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).”
“Pure alexia, unaccompanied by any difficulty in writing ("alexia sine agraphia") is not that uncommon, although it usually comes on suddenly, following a stroke or other brain injury.”
“Two of the four have essentially the same disorder, "alexia sine agraphia", which means inability to read while retaining the ability to write.”
“Pure word blindness (alexia no agraphia): Here the patient can speak normally and comprehend what is spoken; he can also write spontaneously and to dictation, but reading comprehension is impaired.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘agraphia’.
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Writing
graphoanalysis, agraphia, agraphic, anorthography, logagraphia, cipher, code, inscribe, penmanship, cursive, Palmer method, calligraphy and 100 more...
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Rare Words - A
Not just rare words, but thousands of RARE WORDS WITH DEFINITIONS.
If you want to see the definitions, too, go to
http://phrontistery.i...aba, abacinate, abactor, abaculus, abaft, abampere, abapical, abarticular, abasement, abasia, abask, abatis and 1214 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Words build meanings from origins( et...
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2046 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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phrontistery - a
from phrontistery.info
axilla, avalement, argil, argent, argand, arete, aretaics, areometer, areology, arenoid, arenaceous, arefy and 1214 more...
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Scribblative ✍
Scrawlings, notes, odd writings, and messages.
doodle, notation, scrawl, tracing, scribble, latrinalia, sketch, squiggle, notelet, post-it, chicken scratch, caligraphy and 88 more...
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You Don't Say
Language disorders, disabilities, and unusual demonstrations.
aphasia, aphonia, dysarthria, glossolalia, paraphasia, alexia, polymicrogyria, logorrhea, stutter, spoonerism, agraphia, malapropism and 54 more...
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cutting words
sarcasm, sarx, sarcoptic, syssarcosis, shrew, shrewd, screed, scred, shroud, scroll, scrod, scrutiny and 326 more...
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Miscellany, pt. a
afterdamp, abluent, acanthoid, aquiline, acaulescent, aesthetic evil, armillary, armozeen, astucity, athletary, aberrant, abeyant and 118 more...
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Annoying Things
hebetude, mewl, agraphia, ahistorical, iterative, abasia, astasia, abeyance, obstructionist, obscurantism, toilworn, tokenism and 6 more...
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perhapsolutely's Words
polyradiculoneuro..., abulia, abubble, abscission, abaft, zareba, abatis, abigail, abiogenesis, ablate, ablaut, abo and 1705 more...
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words i want to know
fatidic, quotidian, somnambulism, shibboleth, loup, littoral, kowtow, Priam, effluvium, attacca, esurient, hieratic and 20 more...
Tweets
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dailyword Foreman used this word in an episode once when a patient had trouble writing something. Jun 10, 2012