Usually means: Difficulty identifying and expressing emotions.
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  1. alexithymia: Wiktionary
  2. alexithymia: Infoplease Dictionary
  3. alexithymia: Dictionary.com
  4. Alexithymia: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  1. alexithymia: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. alexithymia: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Terms in the field of Psychiatry and Neurology (No longer online)
  5. alexithymia: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (alexithymia)

▸ noun:  A deficiency in understanding, processing, or describing emotions.

Similar:
alexithymic, disaffectation, athymia, athymy, numbness, feelinglessness, asemia, nonunderstanding, nonexpression, apathy, more...

Opposite:
emotional awareness

Phrases:
Toronto Alexithymia Scale, more...

Adjectives:
normative, male, primary, secondary, krystal, trauma, social, item, cultural, affect

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Similar:
alexithymic, disaffectation, athymia, athymy, numbness, feelinglessness, asemia, nonunderstanding, nonexpression, apathy, more...

Opposite:
emotional awareness

Phrases:
Toronto Alexithymia Scale, more...

Adjectives:
normative, male, primary, secondary, krystal, trauma, social, item, cultural, affect



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