different between agnosia vs blindness

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (agn?sía, “ignorance”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æ?.?no?.??/

Noun

agnosia (countable and uncountable, plural agnosias)

1. The inability to recognize objects by use of the senses.

Derived terms

• phonagnosia
• prosopagnosia
• simultagnosia, simultanagnosia

Translations

Further reading

• agnosia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Finnish

Noun

agnosia

1. (pathology) agnosia

Declension

Italian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (agn?sía, “ignorance”).

Noun

agnosia f (plural agnosie)

1. agnosia

Portuguese

Noun

agnosia f (uncountable)

1. (medicine) agnosia (the inability to recognise objects)

Spanish

Noun

agnosia f (uncountable)

1. (medicine, neurology, pathology) agnosia

English

Etymology

From Middle English blyndnes, blyndnesse, from Old English blindnes (“blindness”), equivalent to blind +? -ness.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bla?ndn?s/
• Hyphenation: blind?ness

Noun

blindness (usually uncountable, plural blindnesses)

1. The condition of being blind; unable to see.
2. (figuratively) Want of intellectual or moral discernment; mental darkness; ignorance, heedlessness.
3. (obsolete) concealment

Synonyms

• ablepsy (rare)
• blindhood (rare)
• cecity
• sightlessness

Derived terms

• colour blindness, color blindness
• deaf-blindness, deafblindness
• snow blindness
• stereoblindness

Translations

See also

• anosmia
• deafness

References

• blindness in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• “blindness”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000