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asemia

[ uh-see-mee-uh ]

noun

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


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Other Words From

  • a·sem·ic [uh, -, sem, -ik], adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of asemia1

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

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.

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

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