severe difficulty in making simple mathematical calculations, due to cerebral disease or injury
Word origin
C20: from dys- + Latin calculare to calculate
dyscalculia in American English
(ˌdɪskælˈkjuːliə)
noun
Psychiatry
inability or loss of the ability to perform arithmetic operations; acalculia
Word origin
[1950–55; dys- + calcul(ate) + -ia]This word is first recorded in the period 1950–55. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: action painting, conflict of interest, drip-dry, hot line, speech recognitiondys- is a combining form meaning “ill,” “bad,” used in the formation of compound words.Other words that use the affix dys- include: dysmetria, dyspeptic, dysphemism, dysprosium, dystrophic; -ia is a noun suffix having restricted application in various fields, as in names ofdiseases (malaria; anemia), place names (Italia; Romania), names of Roman feasts (Lupercalia), Latin or Latinizing plurals (Amphibia; insignia; Reptilia), and in other loanwords from Latin (militia)
Examples of 'dyscalculia' in a sentence
dyscalculia
When this was done, the volunteers developed dyscalculia.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Like dyslexia, dyscalculia can be inherited.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Could her dyscalculia pertain in some paradoxical way to the numbers that litter the poems?