dyslexia
Meaning of dyslexia
noun
a general term for disorders that involve difficulty in learning to read or interpret words, letters, and other symbols, but that do not affect general intelligence.
late 19th century: coined in German from dys- ‘difficult’ + Greek lexis ‘speech’ (apparently by confusion of Greek legein ‘to speak’ and Latin legere ‘to read’).
Information about dyslexia
- It is a name.
- The plural form of dyslexia is: dyslexias.
- Languages in which dyslexia is used:
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Hyphenation of dyslexia
dys-lexia
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- dyslexia is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
Translation of dyslexia
- French: dyslexie
- German: Legasthenie
- Italian: dislessia
- Spanish: dislexia
- Portuguese: dislexia
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