HyperDic: alexia

English > 1 sense of the word *alexia*:
NOUN	state	alexia, visual aphasia, word blindness	inability to perceive written words

alexia > pronunciation
Sounds	ahleh'ksiyah
Rhymes	Abyssinia ... zinnia: 217 rhymes with iyah...

English > *alexia*: 1 sense > noun 1, state
Meaning	inability to perceive written words.
Synonyms	visual aphasia, word blindness
Broader	aphasia	inability to use or understand language / language (spoken or written) because of a brain lesion
Spanish	afasia visual, alexia
Catalan	alèxia
Adjectives	alexic	of or relating to or symptomatic of alexia