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Coined in 1925 by Samuel Orton. From Ancient Greek στρέφω (stréphō, “turn aside”) + symbol + -ia.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
strephosymbolia
Today it means: A tendency, associated with word blindness, to twist or invert certain similar letters (such as b and d) when reading. Full definition →