Anosognosia is the unawareness of one's own disease, disability, or defect.
Unawareness of one's disease, disability, or a defect.
| Front | anosognosia \uh-no-sog-NOH-zee-uh\ |
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| Back | noun Unawareness of one's disease, disability, or a defect. [From Greek a- (without) + nosos (disease) + gnosis (knowledge). Earliest documented use: 1915. Also see agnosia.] "When I weigh up how much we have achieved in 50 years in spite of our collective anosognosia, the thought of what we could have achieved, had we displayed an ounce of sanity, is enough to drive me nuts." |
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