Phrase guide
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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
inability to understand written, spoken, or tactile speech symbols, due to disease of the auditory and visual word centers, as in word blindness
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: medicine, pathology, sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
aphasia characterized by fluent but meaningless speech and severe impairment of the ability understand spoken or written words
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Wernicke's aphasia, fluent aphasia, sensory aphasia, impressive aphasia
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: aphasia
History
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