Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
noun Pathology.
- any of various reading disorders associated with impairment of the ability to interpret spatial relationships or to integrate auditory and visual information.
noun
- a developmental disorder which can cause learning difficulty in one or more of the areas of reading, writing, and numeracyNontechnical name: word blindness
c.1887, from German dyslexie (1883), from Greek dys- “bad, abnormal, difficult” (see dys-) + lexis “word,” from legein “speak” (see lecture (n.)). Dyslexic (n.) is first recorded 1961; dyslectic (adj.) from 1964.
n.
- A learning disorder marked by impairment of the ability to recognize and comprehend written words.
- A learning disability marked by impairment of the ability to recognize and comprehend written words.
Difficulty in reading when experienced by persons with normal vision and normal or above-normal intelligence. A common example of dyslexia is reading words with the letters in reverse order, as in fyl for fly.