dyslexia
A learning disability characterized by reading and writing difficultiesA learning disability characterized by reading and writing difficulties.
» Tom has been diagnosed with dyslexia.
Meaning
1 senses(countable, uncountable)A learning disability characterized by reading and writing difficulties.
Legasthenie, Dyslexie
дислекси́яdisleksíja
дислексіяdysleksija
- impaired ability to learn to read
Examples
12 sentencesTom has been diagnosed with dyslexia.
Tom struggled with dyslexia as a child.
deTom hatte als Kind mit einer Lese-Rechtschreibschwäche zu kämpfen.
Tom has dyslexia.
Tom grew up with dyslexia.
deTom wuchs mit Legasthenie auf.
Tom suffers from dyslexia.
Том страждає на дислексію.
ruТом страдает дислексией.
deTom hat eine Lese-Rechtschreibschwäche.
Translations
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Origin
Learned borrowing from French dyslexie and/or German Dyslexie, coined by German ophthalmolLearned 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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Forms
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