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Meaning of "word blindness" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF WORD BLINDNESS

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WORD BLINDNESS

noun
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verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Word blindness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WORD BLINDNESS

word association
word burst
word class
word deafness
word for word
word formation
word game
word list
Word of God
word of honour
word of mouth
word order
word picture
word processing
word processor
word sense disambiguation
word square
word stress
word wrap
word wrapping

WORDS THAT END LIKE WORD BLINDNESS

awkwardness
baldness
blindness
boldness
business
fondness
goodness
hardness
indebtedness
kindness
loudness
madness
mindedness
oddness
preparedness
redness
sadness
soundness
tiredness
weirdness
wickedness

Synonyms and antonyms of word blindness in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «word blindness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WORD BLINDNESS

Find out the translation of word blindness to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of word blindness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «word blindness» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

字失明
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

ceguera palabra
570 millions of speakers

English

word blindness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

शब्द अंधापन
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

كلمة العمى
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

слово слепота
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

palavra cegueira
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

শব্দ অন্ধত্ব
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

cécité verbale
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Buta perkataan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Wortblindheit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

失読症
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

단어 실명
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tembung blindness
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

mù chữ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வார்த்தை குருட்டுத்தன்மை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

शब्द अंधत्व
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Kelime körlüğü
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

parola di cecità
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

ślepota słowo
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

слово сліпота
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

orbire cuvânt
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

λέξη τύφλωση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

woord blindheid
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

ordet blindhet
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

ord blindhet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of word blindness

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WORD BLINDNESS»

The term «word blindness» is used very little and occupies the 172.220 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «WORD BLINDNESS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about word blindness

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WORD BLINDNESS»

Discover the use of word blindness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to word blindness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Encyclopedia of Special Education
They both used the term congenital word blindness to describe adults and children with clear, pronounced reading disabilities. Specifi- cally, Hinshelwood ( 1917) hypothesized that children with congenital word blindness sustained a brain ...
Cecil R. Reynolds, Elaine Fletcher-Janzen, 2007
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Twentieth Century Neurology: The British Contribution
58-66. Geschwind N and Levitsky, W. (1968). Human brain: Left-right asymmetries in temporal speech region. Science 161, 186-187. Hinshelwood, J. ( 1895). Word-blindness and visual memory. Lancet 2, 1564-1570. Hinshelwood, J . (1896a).
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Classic Cases in Neuropsychology
Why then did Dejerine use the term word blindness ('cécité verbale') when he referred to Monsieur C? 'Word blindness' was a term in common use in Europe around the turn of the 20th century (e.g. Hinshelwood, 1895, 1900, 1917; Kussmaul, ...
Chris Code, Yves Joanette, Andre Roch Lecours, 2013
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Developmental Cognitive Neuropsychology
Both acquired and congenital word-blindness were studied in detail by James Hinshelwood, a surgeon at the Glasgow Eye Infirmary and a lecturer on ophthalmology in the Glasgow Western Medical School, who worked at the end of the 19th ...
Christine Temple, 2014
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How to Detect and Manage Dyslexia: A Reference and Resource ...
James Hinshelwood Dr James Hinshelwood, an opthalmologist and assistant surgeon at the Glasgow Eye Infirmary, described in an article entitled 'Word- blindness and visual memory' (Hinshelwood, 1895) the case of a patient, a teacher of ...
Philomena Ott, 1997
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Towards a Sociology of Dyslexia
Hinshelwood (1917), like Berlin (1887), dismissed the theory that congenital word-blindness was due to a visual impairment, but stated that it was due to defects in both the right and the left hemispheres of the brain. The research hypothesised ...
Stephen James Macdonald, 2009
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Concise Encyclopedia of Special Education: A Reference for ...
242 CONGENITAL WORD BLINDNESS, HISTORY OF Delange. F . Beckers. C . Hofer. R . Konig. MP., Monaco. E.& Val, rone, S 119791. Neonatal screening for congenital bypotbyroidism in Europe. Acia Endocrinoiogica. 90 1Suppl 2231.
Cecil R. Reynolds, Elaine Fletcher-Janzen, 2004
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The History of Special Education: From Isolation to Integration
At the outset investigators regarded the condition as a form of impercep- tion, sometimes called agnosia, sometimes mind blindness, word blindness, or word deafness. Word blindness was the most widely described (e.g., Hinshel- wood ...
Margret A. Winzer, 1993
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Reader in the History of Aphasia: From Franz Gall to Norman ...
In earlier observations (Broad- bent, Dejerine, d'Heilly and Chentemesse, Rosenthal), however, either word blindness did not exist in isolation, but was combined with other forms of aphasia, in particular with word deafness, or the lesion found ...
Paul Eling, 1994
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Encyclopedia of Special Education, 3 Volume Set
... for cluttering, disorganized verbal output, hyperactivity, and difficulty with figure -group concepts (Critchley, in Franklin, 1962; DeHirsch, 1952). Heller (1963) described screening criteria for detecting word blindness in school-aged children  ...
Cecil R. Reynolds, Elaine Fletcher-Janzen, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WORD BLINDNESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term word blindness is used in the context of the following news items.
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New research questions supposed link between bad eyesight and …
In the first study of its kind, scientists found no evidence that visual deficiencies are linked to severe cases of a condition sometimes known as "word blindness". «ITV News, May 15»
2
The History Of Dyslexia
He noticed that several of his patients could not read properly and regularly used words in the wrong order. He introduced the term 'word blindness' to describe ... «PsychCentral.com, Jul 14»
3
What Happens When a Teacher Forgets How to Read?
Agraphia—or "word blindness"—is unusual because patients cannot read, but they can write and understand words out loud. (Courtesy of Flickr user Cramo ... «Smithsonian, Jan 14»
4
The Teacher Who Couldn't Read
Dejerine hypothesized that the man's word blindness came about because his intact right occipital cortex could not make connections to language areas of the ... «National Geographic, Jan 14»
5
Pure Word Blindness Stopped With Letter Tracing Technique: What …
But in a testament to humans' will to triumph over adversity, M.P. devised a method to tackle her word blindness that caught the attention of neurological ... «Medical Daily, Jan 14»
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The Upside of Dyslexia
Since the phenomenon of “word blindness” was first documented more than a century ago, scientists have searched for the causes of dyslexia, and for therapies ... «New York Times, Feb 12»
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Did Leonardo da Vinci's dyslexia help him to be a master painter?
The two men both suffered from the 'word blindness' that affects as many as one in 12 children – but it seems it can also bring the keen spatial awareness that ... «Daily Mail, Nov 10»
8
The Writer Who Couldn't Read
He was suffering from what the French neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene calls "word blindness." His eyes worked. He could see shapes on a page, but they ... «NPR, Jun 10»
9
Number blindness more common than word blindness
In a study led by researchers from University College in London, it was found that dyscalculia, a learning disability that leaves sufferers unable to deal with ... «News-Medical.net, Jun 08»
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Dyslexia begins when the wires don't meet
Sally Shaywitz, a dyslexia expert at Yale University, says that is the "word form" area. .... In 1909, Dr. McCready identified 41 reported cases of "word blindness" ... «Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Feb 07»

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