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Well-traveled words

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aprosexia


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Self-referential words

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PRONUNCIATION:

(ap-ruh-SEK-see-uh)

MEANING:

noun: The inability to concentrate.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin aprosexia, from Dutch aprosexia, from Greek prosekhein (to turn one’s attention). Earliest documented use: 1889.

USAGE:

“He was exhausted by the effort of concentration. ... The doctors suspected he had simulated the symptoms of aprosexia in order to be declared medically unfit.”
Paul Colize (Translation: Louise Rogers Lalaurie); Back Up; Point Blank; 2018.

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