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asemia

American  
[uh-see-mee-uh] / əˈsi mi ə /

noun

Psychiatry.

  1. inability to comprehend or use communicative symbols, as words or gestures.

Other Word Forms

  • asemic adjective

Etymology

Origin of asemia

< Greek ásēm ( os ) signless ( a- a- 6 + sêm ( a ) sign + -os adj. suffix) + -ia -ia

Example Sentences

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Centro-motor Dysphasia and Aphasia, Aphemia, Asymbolia, Asemia.—Children have not yet learned, or have hardly learned, the use of language, although their intelligence is already sufficient.

From Project Gutenberg

Such are the peculiarities of spectral aphasia, or rather asemia. 

From Project Gutenberg

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