Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Loss of the ability to read, usually caused by brain lesions. Also called word blindness.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Inability to read, as the result of a morbid or diseased condition of nervous centers not involving loss of sight; word-blindness; text-blindness.
Wiktionary
- n. psychiatry The inability, due to a cerebral disorder, to comprehend or understand writing.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. As used by some, inability to read aloud, due to brain disease.
- n. More commonly, inability, due to brain disease, to understand written or printed symbols although they can be seen, as in case of word blindness.
WordNet 3.0
- n. inability to perceive written words
Etymologies
- ἀ ("not") + Ancient Greek λέξις ("speech") + -ia (Wiktionary)
- a-1 + Greek lexis, speech (from legein, to speak; see leg- in Indo-European roots) + -ia1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“When the disability is severe, it is termed alexia.”
Simon & Schuster: The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
“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.”
“Yeah, "alexia" is the complete inability to read, as opposed to dyslexia, which is a difficulty while reading.”
“On May 10th 2009, alexia wrote: that is just nasty. cant belive chris is with that girl”
“(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.)”
The Huffington Post: Marian Salzman: Headstrong, Part II: The Creative Process
“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.”
“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.”
The Huffington Post: Marian Salzman: Headstrong, Part II: The Creative Process
“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.”
“Isn't 'alexia' what they call it when you can't read because you have brain damage?”
“Link | December 24th, 2008 at 2:58 am alexia wrote, wow…..this dog is huge but really its just another horse.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘alexia’.
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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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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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SCIE - neurology
abducens.....draw..., ablation.....carr..., acetylcholine......., adrenalin.....nea..., afferent.....to c..., agnosia.....no kn..., alar.....wing-like, alexia.....no words, alveus.....canal, amacrine.....no l..., ambidextrous........, ambiguus.....doub... and 701 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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Some Medical Terms
A list of terms and procedures encountered in the medical literature, beginning with enterectomy.
Many of these terms are archaic, or obsolete.
More medical terms can be found on...enterectomy, ethmoid, parhidrosis, parelectronomy, parectasis, dermatoxerasia, parazygosis, parepididymis, paraspasm, lymphadenopathy, necrosemiosis, necromimesis and 770 more...
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tom, dick and harry
merry andrew, spotted dick, black jack, lazy susan, bloody mary, charley horse, doubting thomas, willy nilly, jolly roger, peg leg, catherine wheel, charlotte russe and 156 more...
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words of collect
A Heidegger Collection - a log of logues
leech, lectern, lection, lecture, legend, legible, legion, lesson, coil, collect, diligent, elect and 123 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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perhapsolutely's Words
polyradiculoneuro..., abulia, abubble, abscission, abaft, zareba, abatis, abigail, abiogenesis, ablate, ablaut, abo and 1705 more...
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Glosseme's Words
pusillanimous, fuliginous, nomenclature, cloture, cudgel, infra dig, aurora borealis, lexicon, domicile, lachrymose, pulchritude, veracity and 52 more...
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caffeinatedcows's Words
loquacious, ataxia, fatwa, selkie, ampersand, syzygy, bombazine, odalisque, incarnadine, hesychastic, somniferous, defenestration and 51 more...
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Medical
metastasize, atrophy, panacea, aphasia, alexia, intermetamorphosis, cotard delusion, prosopagnosia, capgras syndrome, fregoli delusion
Tweets
Looking for tweets for alexia.
hernesheir If you can read this you don't have it. Jun 15, 2011