alexia

== English == === Etymology === From Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, “not”) +‎ λέξις (léxis, “speech”) +‎ -ia. === Pronunciation === (US) IPA(key): /əˈlɛk.si.ə/ === Noun === alexia (countable and uncountable, plural alexias) (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 ==== ==== Further reading ==== Dyslexia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia == Portuguese == === Noun === alexia f (uncountable) alexia (inability to understand writing) === Further reading === “alexia”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “alexia”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026