See also: Alexia and Alexía

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

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alexia (countable and uncountable, plural alexias)

  1. (psychiatry) Word blindness, the inability, due to a cerebral disorder, to comprehend or understand writing.

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alexia f (uncountable)

  1. (psychiatry) alexia (inability to understand writing)