Agnosy

Quick meaning: Agnosy is a noun meaning (uncountable) A lack of spiritual understanding or insight; a lack of enlightenment.

Meaning

(uncountable) A lack of spiritual understanding or insight; a lack of enlightenment.

More Meanings

1. (countable, neurology) A deficit in the ability to perceive.
2. (countable, neurology) A patient suffering from an agnosy.
3. (uncountable, rare) Ignorance, especially that which is common to a group or category of people.

Example Sentences

This "mimic agnosy" will be removed only through very prolonged maturation and learning.

Just as agnosy is the great evil to the Hermetist, so is Parzival's zwivel at the root of all his tribulations.

Music perception disorders from neurological origin (the 3 levels of musical perception désintégration considered as auditory agnosy).

Somato-agnosies vary widely, and somato-paraphrenia is one of the examples of this inability to recognize a part of the body as one's own.

Word Forms

• agnosies

Synonyms for agnosy

Depending on context, synonyms include agnosia.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include ignorance, darkness, unknowing, unknowledge, insightlessness, agnosic.

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