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