alexithymia en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /eɪˌlɛk.səˈθaɪ.mi.ə/
- /əˌlɛk.sɪˈθaɪ.mi.ə/
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Etymology
From a- + lexi + -thymia. Created by psychiatrists John Case Nemiah and Peter Sifneos from Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, “not”) + λέξις (léxis, “speaking”) + θυμός (thumós, “heart”), meaning “without words for emotions”.
Meanings
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(uncountable) A deficiency in understanding, processing, or describing emotions.
Finally, schizophrenic disorders involve impairments of perceptions, including hallucinations and delusions, symptoms that often impair patients’ social and occupational functioning and can create alexithymia (Maggini and Raballo 2004; van ‛t Wout et al. 2007), an inability to recognize one’s own feelings.
2008, Amy Kroska and Sarah K. Harkness, “Exploring the Role of Diagnosis in the Modified Labeling Theory of Mental Illness” in Social Psychology Quarterly LXXI, № 2 (Wrestling with Social Psychology, June 2008), page 195
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Translations (19)
fr alexithymie (deficiency in understanding emotions) · pt alexitimia (deficiency in understanding emotions) · de Alexithymie (deficiency in understanding emotions) · de Gefühlsblindheit (deficiency in understanding emotions) · ja アレキシサイミア (deficiency in understanding emotions) · es alexitimia (deficiency in understanding emotions) · tr aleksitimi (deficiency in understanding emotions) · ar لَامُفْرَدَاتِيّة (deficiency in understanding emotions) · nl alexithymie (deficiency in understanding emotions) · ar أَلِكْسِيثَيْمِيَا (deficiency in understanding emotions) · cmn 述情障礙 /述情障碍 (deficiency in understanding emotions) · fi aleksitymia (deficiency in understanding emotions) · ru алекситими́я (deficiency in understanding emotions) · it alessitimia (deficiency in understanding emotions) · pl aleksytymia (deficiency in understanding emotions) · el αλεξιθυμία (deficiency in understanding emotions) · egl alesitimìa (deficiency in understanding emotions) · no aleksitymi (deficiency in understanding emotions) · de Gefühlslegasthenie (deficiency in understanding emotions)