agnosis

English

Etymology

Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, “without”, “lacking”) + γνῶσις (gnôsis, “knowledge”) ≅ ignorance

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /æɡˈnəʊsɪs/

Noun

agnosis (countable and uncountable, plural agnoses)

1. Epistemologically necessary lack of, indifference to, denial or shunning of knowledge; defective knowledge.
   • 1915: The American Journal of Surgery, volume 29, page 379^{{1} & {2}} (Paul B. Hoeber)

     ^{1} And finally, we come to the agnosis, the most important of them all, […]

     ^{2} I do not refer to the agnosis or the ignorance of cancer in general.

   • 1934, the New York Neurological Association, the Philadelphia Neurological Society, and the Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology, Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, volume 80, page 648:

     For instance he cannot tell the time on the clock, since that depends on the relation of the direction of the hands to each other. This inability to differentiate the directions in relation to each other is a possible cause of optical agnosis. There is a direction element in the form of every object.

   • 1963, Samuel Brock, Howard P. Krieger, The Basis of Clinical Neurology: The Anatomy and Physiology of the Nervous System in Their Application to Clinical Neurology, 4th edition, Williams & Wilkins, page 308:

     They point out that unilateral spatial agnosis is not the sole cause of the disability, and that some degree of bilateral cerebral involvement may be an […]

   • 2005, Paul J. Griffiths, Reinhard Hütter, Reason and the Reasons of Faith, Continuum International Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 331, →ISBN:

     The situation of the person who denies that metaphysical objectivity that is essential to the very idea of truth is not only one of self-contradiction, but of permanent agnosis.

Synonyms

• agnosticism

Antonyms

• gnosis

Derived terms

• acroagnosis
• baragnosis

 

Related terms

• agnosia
• agnostic
• agnotology

Translations

lack, denial or indifference to knowledge

• Portuguese: agnose f

Anagrams

• gosains, sagoins