Meaning & use
Dysnomia
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Difficulty recalling or retrieving specific words while speaking, despite otherwise intact language ability.
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After the stroke, he experienced dysnomia, often pausing mid-sentence to search for a common word.
Mild dysnomia is common with normal aging and usually shows up as trouble naming objects.
A note on using this word
The term combines Greek "dys-" ("difficult") with "onoma" ("name"); it is closely related to, and sometimes used interchangeably with, "anomia."
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anomiaword-finding difficulty
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