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Noun
dysmimia (countable and uncountable, plural dysmimias)
- An inability to use gestures effectively
1894 January, Lyman Watkins, “Aphasia and Allied States”, in The Eclectic Medical Journal, volume 54, page 10:The terms used to indicate special varieties of aberration are as follows: Aphaemia or apthongia, loss of power to articulate; agraphia, inability to write or to understand writing; amimia or dysmimia, cessation of the faculty both to make and understand gestures formerly well understood and familiar, also word blindness and word deafness.