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Alexithymia is a psychological construct characterized by marked difficulties in identifying, distinguishing, and expressing one’s own emotional experiences. The term, derived from the Greek words a- (absence), lexis (word), and thymia (emotion), literally means “inability to put feelings into words.” This concept was first defined in the 1970s based on clinical observations in patients with psychosomatic illnesses and has since been linked to reduced emotional awareness. Alexithymia involves no