Face-blind

Quick meaning: Face-blind is an adjective meaning Having face blindness (prosopagnosia); unable to recognize faces.

Meaning

Having face blindness (prosopagnosia); unable to recognize faces.

Example Sentences

The face-blind person will remember the hair, the glasses, and maybe even the mannerisms, but not the facial features of the other person. It seems to affect about 60 percent of all adults with AS. Medical researcher, Ingo Kennerknecht, assuming that prosopagnosia was rare, tested a group of 689 middle-school children and some medical personnel. He discovered that 2.4 percent of this group had some measure of face blindness.

Because humans develop familiarity with faces and facial expressions at specific times in our lives, those who are deprived of human contact or changing facial expressions at that age often have trouble reading expressions for their entire lives. Formerly blind people are often face-blind or unable to decipher emotion from facial expression. Some have trouble differentiating between male and female faces (Inglis-Arkell 2013).

Few weeks went by when he didn&'t receive letters from anxious readers struggling with some attenuated form of failing to recognize old acquaintances. Some were consoled by Weber's bombshell: a simple neurological quirk that revealed how everyone suffered from a form of prosopagnosia. Even normal recognition fails when the observed face is upside down. Mark Schluter was not face-blind. Just the reverse: he saw differences that were not there.

Word Forms

• faceblind

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include blind, faceless, noseblind, word-blind, purblind, unseeing.

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