dysnomic
dysnomic adjective: pertaining to or affected by dysnomia.
Adjective
dysnomic (not comparable)
- Pertaining to or affected by dysnomia.
- However, little research has explored whether naming tests of different semantic categories would be useful in differentiating language-disordered from non-language-disordered learning-disabled children. It is this lack of data on the naming performance of dysnomic children on tests of varying...1985 September, Diane J. German, “The use of specific semantic word categories in the diagnosis of dysnomic learning-disabled children”, in British Journal of Disorders of Communication, volume 20...
Noun
dysnomic (plural dysnomics)
- A person affected by dysnomia.
- One possible as yet empirically unexplored but provocative explanation links the similarities between young children’s defective colour naming and that of colour dysnomics (see Oxbury, Oxbury & Humphrey 1969).1985 June, Marc H. Bornstein, “Colour-name versus shape-name learning in young children”, in Journal of Child Language, volume 12, number 2, →DOI, page 392
Forms of dysnomic
| plural | dysnomics |
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Origin of dysnomic
From dysnomia + -ic.
Questions about dysnomic
- What does dysnomic mean?
- Dysnomic means pertaining to or affected by dysnomia.
- What part of speech is dysnomic?
- Dysnomic can be an adjective or a noun.
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