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dyslexia

dyslexia

English

Noun

dyslexia ‎(countable and uncountable, plural dyslexias)

(neurology, pathology) A mental disability which causes a person to have difficulty in reading and writing.

Synonyms

word-blindness

Related terms

Translations

learning disability

Afrikaans: disleksie
Asturian: dislexa f
Basque: dislexia
Catalan: dislèxia (ca) f
Czech: dyslexie (cs) f
Danish: ordblindhed
Dutch: dyslexie (nl)
Egyptian Arabic: ديسلكسيا
Estonian: düsleksia, vaeglugemine
Finnish: lukihäiriö (fi), lukivaikeus
French: dyslexie (fr) f
Galician: dislexia f
Georgian: დისლექსია ‎(disleksia)
German: Legasthenie (de) f, Dyslexie (de)
Greek: δυσλεξία (el) f ‎(dyslexía)
Haitian Creole: disleksi
Hebrew: דיסלקציה (he)
Hungarian: diszlexia (hu)
Icelandic: lesblinda (is) f
Indonesian: disleksia (id)
Italian: dislessia (it) f
Japanese: 失読症 ‎(しつどくしょう, shitsudokushō), ディスレクシア ‎(disurekushia)

Korean: 난독증 ‎(nandokjeung)
Kurdish: dîsleksiye
Latvian: disleksija
Malay: disleksia
Mandarin: 失讀症 (zh)
Norwegian: dysleksi
Polish: dysleksja (pl)
Portuguese: dislexia (pt)
Russian: дислексия (ru) ‎(disleksija)
Scottish Gaelic: doille-fhaclan f
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: дислексија

Roman: disleksija (sh)
Slovak: dyslexia
Spanish: dislexia f
Swedish: dyslexi (sv), ordblindhet c
Tamil: டிஸ்லெக்சியா ‎(ṭislekciyā)
Turkish: disleksi (tr)
Ukrainian: дислексія ‎(dysleksija)
Vietnamese: chứng khó đọc
Welsh: dyslecsia

See also

Anagrams

lysdexia