AGNOSIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does agnosia mean? 

• AGNOSIA (noun)
  The noun AGNOSIA has 1 sense:

1. inability to recognize objects by use of the senses

  Familiarity information: AGNOSIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AGNOSIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Inability to recognize objects by use of the senses

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("agnosia" is a kind of...):

brain disease; brain disorder; encephalopathy (any disorder or disease of the brain)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "agnosia"):

astereognosis; tactile agnosia (a loss of the ability to recognize objects by handling them)

auditory agnosia (inability to recognize or understand the meaning of spoken words)

visual agnosia (inability to recognize or interpret objects in the visual field)