Meanings
nounalexithymic (plural alexithymics)
plural alexithymics
- A person who has difficulty feeling, processing or understanding emotions
adjectivealexithymic (comparative more alexithymic, superlative most alexithymic)
comparative more alexithymic · superlative most alexithymic
- human sciencesPertaining to or having alexithymia.First known use 20th c.
‘Horst is such a pushover. The big alexithymic lug.’
2013, Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge, Vintage, published 2014, page 25 - anthropologyLacking in emotion or emotional expression.
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Origin
- Ancient Greekλέξις“speech”
- Englishalexithymic
From a- + Ancient Greek λέξις (léxis, “speech”) + θυμός (thumós, “soul”) + -ic.
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Finnish aleksityyminen
- aleksityyminenpertaining to or having alexithymia
French alexithymique
- alexithymiquepertaining to or having alexithymia
German alexithymisch
- alexithymischpertaining to or having alexithymia
Portuguese alexitímico
- alexitímicopertaining to or having alexithymia
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