Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. deficiency in understanding, processing, or describing emotions
Etymologies
- Coined by psychotherapist Peter Sifneos in 1973. The word comes from the Ancient Greek words λέξις (lexis, "diction", "word") and θυμός (thumos, "soul, as the seat of emotion, feeling, and thought") modified by an alpha-privative, literally meaning "without words for emotions". (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The word alexithymia comes from the ancient Greek language and literally means "without words for feelings.”
The Huffington Post: Kathlyn and Gay Hendricks: Relationship Epidemic: Shutting Out Body Wisdom
“People who are confused about the sources of their own emotions - a condition that in the extreme is called alexithymia - also tend to report little benefit from a burst of tears, studies have found.”
“Many men suffer from what researchers have labeled “normative alexithymia”—the inability to name their emotions.”
“Curing alexithymia begins with how we relate to the energy centers of our bodies.”
The Huffington Post: Kathlyn and Gay Hendricks: Relationship Epidemic: Shutting Out Body Wisdom
“We entered our own relationship 30 years ago with full-blown symptoms of alexithymia.”
The Huffington Post: Kathlyn and Gay Hendricks: Relationship Epidemic: Shutting Out Body Wisdom
“The cure for alexithymia is body wisdom, the art of tuning in to your authentic feelings and the flow of energy within you.”
The Huffington Post: Kathlyn and Gay Hendricks: Relationship Epidemic: Shutting Out Body Wisdom
“We've learned a lot about alexithymia over the past several decades, first in the laboratory of our own relationship and later in working with others.”
The Huffington Post: Kathlyn and Gay Hendricks: Relationship Epidemic: Shutting Out Body Wisdom
“The epidemic of alexithymia has spread because of two factors:”
The Huffington Post: Kathlyn and Gay Hendricks: Relationship Epidemic: Shutting Out Body Wisdom
“The technical term for this problem is "alexithymia.”
The Huffington Post: Kathlyn and Gay Hendricks: Relationship Epidemic: Shutting Out Body Wisdom
“Now, based on sessions with more than 4,000 couples, as well as a million-and-a-half frequent flyer miles teaching seminars around the world, we can tell you that alexithymia is not only a hindrance to relationship intimacy, but a rampant, out-of-control epidemic.”
The Huffington Post: Kathlyn and Gay Hendricks: Relationship Epidemic: Shutting Out Body Wisdom
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘alexithymia’.
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Lingering Irritation
Intensely disliked words from (a) grad program(s) in social sciences. At first they sound tricky and important. Take note! "Modeling is an important aspect in education. Eschew obfuscation."
...zeitgeist, praxis, cathexis, dissertation, reflexive, reflective, empathetic, empathic, paucity, diversity, intervention, efficacy and 23 more...
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Lyeneia's Field Journal
footnotes and add-ons from the gap-lands.
limey, apostate, conflagrate, kindle, dispossess, provenience, reckless malice, honking didactica..., consequential exi..., morainal, morae, compass and 28 more...
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bintalshamsa's list
My Favorite Words
weltschmerz, perspicacity, idée fixe, invigilator, salubrious, tchotchke, ex nihilo, invidious, malapropism, naïve, sardonic, elide and 1402 more...
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sick
"Sick" is probably not the right word, but this is where I put diseases, problems and abnormalities until I find a better way to sort them.
atavism, pareidolia, apophenia, echolalia, glossolalia, alogia, dysthymia, euthymia, synesthesia, Stendhal syndrome, cryptomnesia, analgesia and 356 more...
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mental health; "anyone's lived experi...
emotions, thoughts, contemplations, delusions, hallucinations, sorrows, feelings,
anhedonia, I only cried once..., alexithymia, obfuscate, affable, integrety
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Nakoo's list of beautiful words.
Just about any word I like at the time.
razbliuto, anaxiphilia, lipothymous, inamorata, acushla, abulia, serendipity, alexithymia, quixotic, idiosyncratic, ad nauseam, equanimity and 305 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3250 more...
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trisherrata's Words
gendarme, proficient, exculpatory, disingenuous, smitten, mendacity, meretricious, vertiginous, ineffable, languor, exsanguinate, eponymous and 45 more...
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scarper, alexithymia, anhedonia, quidnunc, quincunx, trove, penetralia, saccades, rhinorrhea, mesentery, trichobezoar, intussusception
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Words I should know
Words found in vocabulary lists that I don't really know or haven't heard before. Removed when I see them in a sentence somewhere. Moved to "Words I've learned just now" if I didn't recognize it ...
moiety, abrogate, abstemious, acumen, bowdlerize, enervate, expurgate, gauche, hegemony, inculcate, jejune, quasar and 45 more...
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A list of words... wow
I'm stupid
hoi polloi, raconteur, halcyon, sobriquet, melancholy, didgeridoo, medulla oblongata, sane, insane, aplomb, zeitgeist, tramontane and 41 more...
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isoglossian's verbal reservoir
where classification begins~
retrospective fal..., kinetosis, umami, mise en abyme, self-similarity, ouroboros, zeugma, semordnilap, counterfactual, pas de deux, götterdämmerung, patternicity and 60 more...
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lipstickandlyrics's list
prurient, ennui, saudade, reverie, wangle, mondegreen, petrichor, muse, anglophile, chthonic, antebellum, masquerade and 17 more...
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Diagnoses.
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Odd Disorders
Tweets
Looking for tweets for alexithymia.
vermontster Can't we just describe someone as alexithymic? Jun 28, 2008