agnosy

Noun

agnosy (countable and uncountable, plural agnosies)

1. (uncountable) A lack of spiritual understanding or insight; a lack of enlightenment.
   • Triad above all substance, super-divine and above the good, guide of the Christians into the Divine Wisdom, conducting us to that above agnosy, i.e., the unknowable, to the highest clearness and the super-eminent height1893, Theosophical Review - Volume 12, page 461
   • Just as agnosy is the great evil to the Hermetist, so is Parzival's zwivel at the root of all his tribulations.1963, Zeitschrift Für Romanische Philologie, page 340

   Synonyms:

   agnosia

2. (countable) A deficit in the ability to perceive.
   • This "mimic agnosy" will be removed only through very prolonged maturation and learning.1975, Martha Davis, Recognition of facial expression, page 17
   • Music perception disorders from neurological origin (the 3 levels of musical perception désintégration considered as auditory agnosy).1985, Psychology, psychopathology, psychiatry, page 467

   Synonyms:

   agnosia

3. (countable) A patient suffering from an agnosy.
   • Finally, optic aphasics are usually described as being unimpaired in everyday life, whereas agnosies are often noticeably handicapped by their inability to recognize objects, people, and locales.2000 October, M Sitton, MC Mozer, MJ Farah, “Superadditive effects of multiple lesions in a connectionist architecture: Implications for the neuropsychology of optic aphasia.”, in Psychological...
4. (rare, uncountable) Ignorance, especially that which is common to a group or category of people.
   • Your logic is faulty, reflecting cachexia and the general agnosy that plagues your race.1987, Porter Gulch Review - Volume 3, Issue 1, page 14
   • That Organon remains largely unstudied and even ignored reveals the real agnosy of our institutions and teachers charged with training future generations of homœopaths.1993, George Dimitriadis, The Importance of Hahnemann's Organon

   Synonyms:

   agnosia