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amimia

amimia noun: inability to express oneself using facial expressions.

Noun

amimia (countable and uncountable, plural amimias)

  1. inability to express oneself using facial expressions
    • Parkinsonism, at its severest, presents itself as an akinetic amimia (as opposed to certain cortical disorders which are amimic akinesias).1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings

amimia meaning in Tamil and Kannada

amimia in Tamil

சைகைகாட்ட இயலாமை, செயல் உணர்விழப்பு, செய்க ஆற்றலிழப்பு

amimia in Kannada

ಸನ್ನೆನುಡಿಬಲಕೊರೆ

Forms of amimia

pluralamimias

Origin of amimia

From a- + German Mimik (“facial expressions”) + -ia.

Questions about amimia

What does amimia mean?
Amimia means inability to express oneself using facial expressions.
What is amimia in Tamil?
Amimia in Tamil is சைகைகாட்ட இயலாமை, செயல் உணர்விழப்பு, செய்க ஆற்றலிழப்பு. See Amimia meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is amimia?
Amimia is a noun.
What is the plural of amimia?
The plural of amimia is amimias.

Words near amimia in the dictionary

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  2. amiloplast
  3. amiloride
  4. amilorides
  5. amils
  6. amimia
  7. amimias
  8. amimic
  9. amin
  10. Amina
  11. Aminabad

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Adapted from Wiktionary: amimia (page history and authors); amimia (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); amimia (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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