anosognosia

English

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, “not, without”) and νόσος (nósos, “disease”) and γνῶσις (gnôsis, “knowledge”).

Noun

anosognosia (countable and uncountable, plural anosognosias)

1. The inability of a person to recognize his or her own illness or handicap.
2. (pathology) Failure to be aware of a defect or deficit resulting from disability, due to brain injury (e.g. Anton-Babinski syndrome).

Coordinate terms

• anosodiaphoria

Derived terms

• anosognosic

 

Translations

inability of a person to recognize personal defects

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: anosognòsia f
• Dutch: anosognosie f
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: sairaudentunnottomuus (fi), anosognosia (fi)
• French: anosognosie (fr) f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Anosognosie f
• Greek: ανοσογνωσία (el) f (anosognosía)
• Hungarian: anozognózia
• Italian: anosognosia f, nosoagnosia f
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: anosognozja (pl) f
• Portuguese: anosognosia f
• Romanian: anosognozie f
• Russian: анозогнози́я (ru) f (anozognozíja)
• Spanish: anosognosia f

Portuguese

Noun

anosognosia f (usually uncountable, plural anosognosias)

1. (neurology) anosognosia (inability to recognise personal defects)

Spanish

Noun

anosognosia f (plural anosognosias)

1. anosognosia

Further reading

• “anosognosia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014