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Sorry, it should be placed here of course.
This could just be fun. Because it just clever. To have five words of 14 letters long defined by 14 letters.
I'm no word nerd, as the alas dear absentee themilum would put it, and no expert at all, but I just like it.
acritochromacy (uh-KRIT-o-kro-muh-see) noun
Color blindness.
[From Greek akritos (undistinguishing) + chroma (color).]
I wonder does there exist a word for 'word blindness' as well or is that covered by 'dyslexia'?
And would there exist more than five?
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No I'm almost certain there is a word for 'word blindness' that is more specific than dyslexia but I can't think what it is.
In the meantime I can make one up - how about arhemopsia or agraphopsia?
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Ah, the first is a herbaceous perennial, the second a disorder of the nervous system.
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Wouldn't that be illiteracy?
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agraphic - characterized by inability to write
aphasic - characterized by inability to speak
illiterate - (narrowly) characterized by inability to read
but, are any of these what you mean by "word blindness," Bran?
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Could it be alexia? ( link)
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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and alexic is the adjectival form.
(M-W defines alexia as aphasia characterized by loss of ability to read)
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I've looked it up on some sites here. Woordblind is the word we used and still use besides the modern 'dyslexia' for those reading and spelling problems. I think my question should be the other way around: Is there an English word for dyslexia?
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well, jheem has given you a link to one source which defines alexia *exactly as word blindness, but you seem to have rejected that? edit: here are some more
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one source which defines alexia *exactly as word blindness, but you seem to have rejected that?
I think BranShea was asking if there is a non-technical word for dyslexia in English. I can't think of one.
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