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lysdexia

lysdexia noun: dyslexia; proneness to metathesis in reading, writing, or speech due to (real or imagined) dyslexia.

Noun

lysdexia (uncountable)

  1. (humorous) Dyslexia; proneness to metathesis in reading, writing, or speech due to (real or imagined) dyslexia.
    • 1990, Sharon Arthur Moore et al., Dyslexia, what's lysdexia? [title] in Reading Teacher 43
    • More complex problems such as dyslexia (or as one child once said, lysdexia) may merit a variety of special interventions.1995, Jerrold S Maxmen, Essential Psychopathology and Its Treatment http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=Wu8FDU9botYC&pg=PA428&lpg=PA428&sig=c8XER34_hJ5450q0r14rGvApggA

Origin of lysdexia

Humorous formation from dyslexia by metathesis, as if due to dyslexia.

Questions about lysdexia

What does lysdexia mean?
Lysdexia means dyslexia; proneness to metathesis in reading, writing, or speech due to (real or imagined) dyslexia.
What part of speech is lysdexia?
Lysdexia is a noun.

Words near lysdexia in the dictionary

  1. Lysander
  2. Lysanders
  3. lysate
  4. lysated
  5. lysates
  6. lysdexia
  7. lysdexic
  8. lyse
  9. lysed
  10. lysencephalic
  11. lysenin

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