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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
alexia /əˈlɛksɪə, eɪ-/

▶noun Medicine inability to recognize or read written words or letters, typically as a result of brain damage. Compare with dyslexia.

– origin C19: from a-1 + Gk lexis ‘speech’, from legein ‘speak’, which was confused with L. legere ‘read’.

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