visual aphasia

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   inability to perceive written words

   Synonymsalexiaword blindness

   Broaderaphasia

Questions about visual aphasia

What does visual aphasia mean?

visual aphasia means "inability to perceive written words".

What is another word for visual aphasia?

Close synonyms include alexia, word blindness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is visual aphasia a common word?

visual aphasia is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.