dyslexia
noun/dɪsˈleksiə/
/dɪsˈleksiə/
[uncountable]- a condition affecting the brain that causes difficulty in reading and spelling, for example, but does not affect intelligenceTopics Disabilityc2Word Originlate 19th cent.: coined in German from dys- ‘difficult’ + Greek lexis ‘speech’ (apparently by confusion of Greek legein ‘to speak’ and Latin legere ‘to read’).
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