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astereognosia

astereognosia noun: synonym of astereognosis (which is the more common synonym).

Noun

astereognosia (uncountable)

  1. Synonym of astereognosis (which is the more common synonym)
    Synonyms:
    astereognosis

Synonyms of astereognosia

Origin of astereognosia

From international scientific vocabulary, from New Latin, parallel with the a- + stereo- + gnosis of the more established synonym (astereognosis) and clearly influenced by the naturally apparent (to biomedically informed speakers) surface analysis of agnosia (which is cognitively adjacent, hypernymously).

Questions about astereognosia

What does astereognosia mean?
Astereognosia means synonym of astereognosis (which is the more common synonym).
What part of speech is astereognosia?
Astereognosia is a noun.

Words near astereognosia in the dictionary

  1. aster-
  2. asteracean
  3. asteraceous
  4. asterane
  5. asteranes
  6. astereognosia
  7. astereognosis
  8. asteria
  9. asteriacerebroside
  10. asteriacerebrosides
  11. asterias

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Adapted from Wiktionary: astereognosia (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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