different between alexithymia vs alexithymic

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Etymology

Created by psychiatrists John Case Nemiah and Peter Sifneos from Ancient Greek ?- (a-, “not”) + ????? (léxis, “speaking”) + ????? (thumós, “heart”), meaning “without words for emotions”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?e?.l?k.s???a?.mi.?/

Noun

alexithymia (uncountable)

1. A deficiency in understanding, processing, or describing emotions.
   • 2008, Amy Kroska and Sarah K. Harkness, “Exploring the Role of Diagnosis in the Modified Labeling Theory of Mental Illness” in Social Psychology Quarterly LXXI, ? 2 (Wrestling with Social Psychology, June 2008), page 195:

     Finally, schizophrenic disorders involve impairments of perceptions, including hallucinations and delusions, symptoms that often impair patients’ social and occupational functioning and can create alexithymia (Maggini and Raballo 2004; van ?t Wout et al. 2007), an inability to recognize one’s own feelings.

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English

Etymology

From a- + Ancient Greek ????? (léxis, “speech”) + ????? (thumós, “soul”) + -ic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??l?ks???a?m?k/

Noun

alexithymic (plural alexithymics)

1. A person who has difficulty feeling, processing or understanding emotions

Adjective

alexithymic (comparative more alexithymic, superlative most alexithymic)

1. (psychiatry, psychology) Pertaining to or having alexithymia. [from 20th c.]
   • 2013, Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge, Vintage 2014, p. 25:

     ‘Horst is such a pushover. The big alexithymic lug.’

2. (anthropology) Lacking in emotion or emotional expression.

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• Thesaurus:alexithymic

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