Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Deprived of the visual memory of the signs of language. Unable, as a result of disease, to read, though possibly retaining the ability to speak, write, and understand spoken words.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Describes a person who suffers from
word blindness oralexia
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to or symptomatic of alexia
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word word-blind.
Examples
-
Suddenly all these bobbles you got word-blind to before leap up and smack you in the face.
-
Hans Christian Andersen, creator of fairy tales, was word-blind.
-
In many ways, it had been the making of him — as it had other word-blind people, like Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Edison, Nelson Rockefeller.
-
The minor hemisphere in addition to being unable to talk, and unable to write, and word-deaf and word-blind, was inferred by extrapolation to be typically lacking also in the higher cognitive faculties associated with language and symbolic processing.
-
Again, such cases seem to tell us that word comprehension is confined to the left hemisphere and that the spared right hemisphere must be word-deaf, as well as word-blind.
-
He is like the patients that Kussmaul calls "word-blind," who can not, in spite of good sight, read the written words they see, but can express them in speech and writing.
-
(8, 9, 10) on these patients seemed to show from the start that the disconnected right hemisphere was by no means word-deaf as anticipated, nor either word-blind.
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.