Etymology

The term alexithymia was introduced by psychotherapists John Case Nemiah and Peter Sifneos in 1970 to describe a particular psychological phenomenon. The word is formed by combining the alpha privative prefix ?- (a-, meaning 'not') with ????? (léxis, referring to 'words') and ??u?? (thymós, denoting 'disposition,' 'feeling,'

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