alexia

See also: Alexia and Alexía

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, “not”) +‎ λέξις (léxis, “speech”) +‎ -ia.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /əˈlɛk.si.ə/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

alexia (countable and uncountable, plural alexias)

1. (medicine, neurology) The inability, due to a cerebral disorder, to comprehend or understand writing.

   Synonym: word blindness

   Coordinate term: letter blindness

Hypernyms

• dyslexia

Related terms

• alexic

Translations

type of word blindness

Afrikaans: aleksie, woordblindheid Catalan: alèxia (ca) f Czech: alexie (cs) f Dutch: alexie (nl) f Esperanto: aleksio Finnish: aleksia (fi) French: alexie (fr) f Georgian: ალექსია (ka) (aleksia) Greek: αλεξία (el) f (alexía) Polish: aleksja (pl) f Portuguese: alexia f Swedish: alexi (sv) c Turkish: aleksi (tr)

Further reading

• Dyslexia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Portuguese

Noun

alexia f (uncountable)

1. alexia (inability to understand writing)

Further reading

• “alexia”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “alexia”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025