writer's cramp

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   muscular spasms of thumb and forefinger while writing with a pen or pencil

   Synonymsgraphospasm

   Broaderspasm

Questions about writer's cramp

What does writer's cramp mean?

writer's cramp means "muscular spasms of thumb and forefinger while writing with a pen or pencil".

What is another word for writer's cramp?

Close synonyms include graphospasm. 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 writer's cramp a common word?

writer's cramp 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.