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agnosy

noun

Etymology

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

Definitions

  1. A lack of spiritual understanding or insight

    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 height
    • Just as agnosy is the great evil to the Hermetist, so is Parzival's zwivel at the root of all his tribulations.
    • Before man receives the grace of revelation, he lives in agnosy: he does not know God, the gnostic God who is his father and the source of revelation; he does not know himself as the son of God.

  2. A deficit in the ability to perceive.

    • This "mimic agnosy" will be removed only through very prolonged maturation and learning.
    • Music perception disorders from neurological origin (the 3 levels of musical perception désintégration considered as auditory agnosy).
    • Neuropsychological examination performed two weeks after the stroke revealed normal speech and auditory verbal comprehension and no number dyslexia, acalculia, colour and digital agnosy.

  3. 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.
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    1. 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.
      • That Organon remains largely unstudied and even ignored reveals the real agnosy of our institutions and teachers charged with training future generations of homœopaths.
      • No historical anecdote had ever brought home to Fiben so well just how much agnosy and craziness poor human mels and fems had endured.

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