| alexia |
| Definition: An inability to read caused by physical impairment. |
| Etymology: The word derives from the Greek a, not + lexis, word. |
| OED: The word's first OED is from 1878: "It is … by no means easy to say how much of the alexia and paralexia is to be ascribed to the hemiopia." (G. B. Shattuck tr. von Ziemssen's Cycl. Med. XIV. 774) |