Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

Triad above all substance, super-divine and above the good, guide of the Christians into the Divine Wisdom, conducting us to that above agnosy, i.e., the unknowable, to the highest clearness and the super-eminent height

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

Before man receives the grace of revelation, he lives in agnosy: he does not know God, the gnostic God who is his father and the source of revelation; he does not know himself as the son of God.

And then (the man,) delivered as much from that which is seen as from that which sees, penetrates into the true mystic obscurity and darkness of the agnosy;

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

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

Neuropsychological examination performed two weeks after the stroke revealed normal speech and auditory verbal comprehension and no number dyslexia, acalculia, colour and digital 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

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