Definition of AGNOSY

agnosy

Meanings

Plural: agnosies

Noun

  • A lack of spiritual understanding or insight; a lack of enlightenment.
  • A deficit in the ability to perceive.
  • A patient suffering from an agnosy.
  • Ignorance, especially that which is common to a group or category of people.

Origin / Etymology

By surface analysis, a- + -gnosy; diachronically, probably from the same borrowing as agnosia, which see.

Synonyms

agnosia

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