word blindness
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of word blindness
First recorded in 1880–85
Example Sentences
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How can I tax that old inamorata with word blindness?
From The Guardian ● Dec. 15, 2012
Unfortunately, that particular inamorata had a touch of word blindness.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 15, 2012
In her 27 years at the clinic school, kindly, frowzy Grace Fernald has treated hundreds of thousands of such cases of "word blindness."
From Time Magazine Archive
No one knew exactly what it was all about, but some had caught the word "blindness" and repeated it to others.
From The Leopard Woman by White, Stewart Edward
Occlusion of the left posterior cerebral artery causes extensive softening of the occipital lobe and produces pure word blindness.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various
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