dysnomic
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]dysnomic (not comparable)
- (medicine) Pertaining to or affected by dysnomia.
- 1985 September, Diane J. German, “The use of specific semantic word categories in the diagnosis of dysnomic learning-disabled children”, in British Journal of Disorders of Communication, volume 20, number 2, , page 146:
- However, little research has explored whether naming tests of different semantic categories would be useful in differentiating language-disordered from non-language-disordered learning-disabled children. It is this lack of data on the naming performance of dysnomic children on tests of varying semantic categories that prompted this investigation.
Noun
[edit]dysnomic (plural dysnomics)
- (medicine) A person affected by dysnomia.
- 1985 June, Marc H. Bornstein, “Colour-name versus shape-name learning in young children”, in Journal of Child Language, volume 12, number 2, , page 392:
- One possible as yet empirically unexplored but provocative explanation links the similarities between young children’s defective colour naming and that of colour dysnomics (see Oxbury, Oxbury & Humphrey 1969).