Alexia

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Loss of the ability to read, usually caused by brain lesions. Also called word blindness.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The inability, due to a cerebral disorder, to comprehend or understand writing.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. As used by some, inability to read aloud, due to brain disease.
  • n. More commonly, inability, due to brain disease, to understand written or printed symbols although they can be seen, as in case of word blindness.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Inability to read, as the result of a morbid or diseased condition of nervous centers not involving loss of sight; word-blindness; text-blindness.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. inability to perceive written words
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