Prosopagnosia Definition
prŏsə-păg-nōsē-ə, -zē-ə
noun
A disorder characterized by the inability to recognize people by their faces. In some cases it is present at birth, and in others it is the result of a brain injury.
American Heritage Medicine
A type of agnosia in which a person cannot recognize familiar faces.
Webster's New World
A form of visual agnosia characterised by difficulty with face recognition despite intact low-level visual processing. Also known as PA.
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Noun
Singular:
prosopagnosia
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prosopagnosiasOrigin of Prosopagnosia
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Apparently derived from the German title of a 1947 paper by neurologist Joachim Bodamer describing the condition, titled Die Prosop-Agnosie, derived from Ancient Greek πρόσωπον (prosopon, “face") and ἀγνωσία (agnosia, “non-knowledge").
From Wiktionary
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Greek prosōpon face, character prosopopeia agnōsiā agnosia agnosia
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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