dysnomias

Noun

dysnomia (countable and uncountable, plural dysnomias)

1. Anomic aphasia, a condition affecting the memory that impairs the recall of words or names.
   • Dysnomia is a disorder in which a person has difficulty naming people or objects. Some sources consider it a milder form of anomia, which is a type of aphasia, or disorder of language. Dysnomia seems to be more clearly memory related and specifically related to a retrieval deficit. Presented with...2013, Annette Kujawski Taylor, Dysnomia, entry in Annette Kujawski Taylor (editor), Encyclopedia of Human Memory, ABC-CLIO (Greenwood), page 404

   Synonyms:

   amnesic aphasia, amnestic aphasia, nominal aphasia

2. (developmental psychology) Impaired or deficient ability to recall words or names.
   • Dysnomia refers to a large group of children who talk and understand well but have difficulty with word retrieval.[…]Dysnomia is a well-established antecedent to stuttering or stammering.1989, J. P. Mohr, Manual of Clinical Problems in Neurology, Little, Brown, page 315
3. (countable) An incident of a person not recalling a word or name.
   • Though we have no statistical data to back it up, our impression has been that medication prescribed for a child's behavioral problems, or for seizure control, sometimes have a stabilizing effect on these episodic dysnomias.1977, J. Gordon Millichap (editor), Learning Disabilities and Related Disorders, Year Book Medical Publishers, page 49

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