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lysdexia

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

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

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: humorous, uncountable

Examples

  • 1990, Sharon Arthur Moore et al., Dyslexia, what's lysdexia? [title] in Reading Teacher 43
  • 1995, Jerrold S Maxmen, Essential Psychopathology and Its Treatment http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=Wu8FDU9botYC&pg=PA428&lpg=PA428&sig=c8XER34_hJ5450q0r14rGvApggA 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 http://print.google.com/print?id=_nsVcjo5Ey0C&pg=PR21&lpg=PR21&sig=G-XeHvu1zxjmbLAgMv4k2wwffbE Priase to Hodwy, Dog of Lysdexia.
  • 2005, Stefan Koski, Miscellaneous Philosophy http://print.google.com/print?id=Ib0t1Xy44rcC&pg=PA121&lpg=PA121&sig=6G0WLo7Xc0GNfgX7JeybR-T4SGo “My apologies. My lysdexia must be kicking in again. What I meant to say was, ‘Who beath thou?’”

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

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