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# alexia

noun (alexia — uncountable); name (Alexia)

«alexia» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. (medicine) A loss of the ability to read, usually after damage to the brain, for example from a stroke, in someone who could read before. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alexia/#m1)
2. (a name) Alexia is a girl's name. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alexia/#m2)

### In the lessons

Met in science or health talk about the brain, and as a person's name in class lists and stories. It is not the same as dyslexia.

### Examples

- After her stroke, Grandma had alexia for a while. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alexia/#x1)
- Alexia means a person who could read loses that skill. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alexia/#x2)
- Alexia is in my netball team. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alexia/#x3)
- Doctors helped him relearn reading after alexia. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alexia/#x4)
- Alexia read her story to the class. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alexia/#x5)
- Alexia is rare compared with dyslexia. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alexia/#x6)

### Note

Medical word is uncountable; the name takes a capital A. Do not mix up with dyslexia, which is a lifelong difference in learning to read.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «alexia» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alexia/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«alexia» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/alexia.html) on Mova free.