different between dyslexia vs lysdexia

English

Etymology

Circa 1890, from New Latin dys- + lexia, from Ancient Greek ???- (dus-) expressing the idea of difficulty, and ????? (léxis, “diction”, “word”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /d?s?l?ksi.?/

Noun

dyslexia (countable and uncountable, plural dyslexias)

1. (neurology, pathology) A learning disability characterized by reading and writing difficulties.

Synonyms

• word-blindness

Related terms

• dyslectic
• dyslexic
• dyslexify

Translations

See also

• alexia
• dyscalculia
• dysgraphia
• dyslexia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• lysdexia

English

Etymology

Humorous formation from dyslexia by metathesis, as if due to dyslexia.

Noun

lysdexia (uncountable)

1. (humorous) Dyslexia; proneness to metathesis in reading, writing, or speech due to (real or imagined) dyslexia.

Quotations

• 1990, Sharon Arthur Moore et al., Dyslexia, what's lysdexia? [title] in Reading Teacher 43
• 1995, Jerrold S Maxmen, Essential Psychopathology and Its Treatment [1]

  More complex problems such as dyslexia (or as one child once said, lysdexia) may merit a variety of special interventions.

• 2003, Willow Polson, The Veil's Edge [2]

  Priase to Hodwy, Dog of Lysdexia.

• 2005, Stefan Koski, Miscellaneous Philosophy [3]

  “My apologies. My lysdexia must be kicking in again. What I meant to say was, ‘Who beath thou?’”

Related terms

• lysdexic

Anagrams

• dyslexia