AGRAPHIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does agraphia mean? 

• AGRAPHIA (noun)
  The noun AGRAPHIA has 1 sense:

1. a loss of the ability to write or to express thoughts in writing because of a brain lesion

  Familiarity information: AGRAPHIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AGRAPHIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A loss of the ability to write or to express thoughts in writing because of a brain lesion

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

agraphia; anorthography; logagraphia

Hypernyms ("agraphia" is a kind of...):

brain disease; brain disorder; encephalopathy (any disorder or disease of the brain)