asemia

[ uh-see-mee-uh ]

noun

, Psychiatry.

1. inability to comprehend or use communicative symbols, as words or gestures.

Other Words From

• a·sem·ic [uh, -, sem, -ik], adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of asemia¹

< Greek ásēm ( os ) signless ( a- a- ⁶ + sêm ( a ) sign + -os adj. suffix) + -ia -ia

Example Sentences

Centro-motor Dysphasia and Aphasia, Aphemia, Asymbolia, Asemia.—Children have not yet learned, or have hardly learned, the use of language, although their intelligence is already sufficient.

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Such are the peculiarities of spectral aphasia, or rather asemia. 

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