dyslexia
/(ˌ)dɪsˈlɛk.si.ə/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.02 in modern English
19
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8
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4
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Meaning
noun
A learning disability characterized by reading and writing difficulties.
Countable; Uncountable
Etymology
Learned borrowing from French dyslexie and/or German Dyslexie, coined by German ophthalmologist Rudolf Berlin in 1887, from dys- + lexis + -ia, from Ancient Greek δυσ- (dus-) + λέξις (léxis, “diction”, “word”), from Ancient Greek λέγω (légō, “to speak”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *leg- (“to collect, gather; to speak”). The term was coined with λέξις (léxis) being taken to mean "reading," likely due to semantic conflation of Greek λέγω (légō, “to speak”) and Latin legō (“to read”). By surface analysis, dys- + lex(is) + -ia.
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dyslexia-friendly