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dyslexia
CEFRC1
/(ˌ)dɪsˈlɛk.si.ə/
noun
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In plain English
- 01
noun
A condition that makes reading and spelling difficult.
- 02
noun
Extra detailA learning disability characterized by reading and writing difficulties.
Examples
Dyslexia is a learning disability that makes learning a language challenging.
Tom struggled with dyslexia as a child.
At a glance
Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale
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- 2
- Parts of speech
- 1
- Synonyms
- 1
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In contextTom grew up with dyslexia.
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Origin
noun
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.