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agnosia

 (n): inability to recognize objects by use of the senses
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about 1 hour ago seanahan said:

Also, face blindness or prosopagnosia.

2 days ago mollusque said:

All his books described some flavor of agnosia — blindness to objects, blindness to places, blindness to age or expression or gaze.
--Richard Powers, 2007, The Echo Maker, p. 148

about 1 month ago oroboros said:

Cf. jamais vu.

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