Dysnomia

Quick meaning: Dysnomia is a noun meaning (medicine, pathology) Anomic aphasia, a condition affecting the memory that impairs the recall of words or names.

Meaning

(medicine, pathology) Anomic aphasia, a condition affecting the memory that impairs the recall of words or names.

More Meanings

1. (neurology, psychology, developmental psychology) Impaired or deficient ability to recall words or names.
2. (countable) An incident of a person not recalling a word or name.

Example Sentences

Dysnomia refers to a large group of children who talk and understand well but have difficulty with word retrieval.[…]Dysnomia is a well-established antecedent to stuttering or stammering.

The delay in speech and language development, especially expressive function with auditory discrimination, dysnomias, word-finding difficulties, etc. implies that these children, especially in school situations, have difficulties in verbalizing experiences, as well as in reading and writing.

1977, J. Gordon Millichap (editor), Learning Disabilities and Related Disorders, Year Book Medical Publishers, page 49, Though we have no statistical data to back it up, our impression has been that medication prescribed for a child's behavioral problems, or for seizure control, sometimes have a stabilizing effect on these episodic dysnomias.

2012, Roberta F. White, Frederic E. Rose, The Boston Process Approach, Gerald Goldstein, Theresa M. Incagnoli (editors), Contemporary Approaches to Neuropsychological Assessment, Plenum Press, page 183, For this reason we have developed an ancillary 40-item naming test, the Diamond Naming Test (DNT) (Diamond, Diamond, & White, 1987), using lower frequency names to explore subtle dysnomias in such subjects (items include targets such as andirons).

Word Forms

• dysnomias

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