agnosy

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

agnosy agnosies

Etymology

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

Synonyms

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