Meaning of agnosy | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A lack of spiritual understanding or insight; a lack of enlightenment.
   uncountable
2. A deficit in the ability to perceive.
   countable
3. A patient suffering from an agnosy.
   countable
4. Ignorance, especially that which is common to a group or category of people.
   rare, uncountable

Examples

“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.”

“And then (the man,) delivered as much from that which is seen as from that which sees, penetrates into the true mystic obscurity and darkness of the agnosy;”

“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.”

“Somato-agnosies vary widely, and somato-paraphrenia is one of the examples of this inability to recognize a part of the body as one's own.”

“The problems related to the visual-spatial difficulties are due to the loss of spatial references, either due to problems of the visual field loss or perceptive problems (agnosy), attention problems or difficulties of the executive function, which cause an inefficient search of information.”

“These advantages also play a role in treatment for special indication such as in patients with neurological problems (e.g. Parkinson's disease), in whom a total replacement leads to a worsening of the underlying disease whereas compartmental reconstruction avoids the effect of somato-agnosy (loss of sensation of a body part).”

“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.”

“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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