word blindness

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   inability to perceive written words

   Synonymsvisual aphasiaalexia

   Broaderaphasia

Questions about word blindness

What does word blindness mean?

word blindness means "inability to perceive written words".

What is another word for word blindness?

Close synonyms include visual aphasia, alexia. 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 word blindness a common word?

word blindness 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.