nosognosia
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nosognosia
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From the Ancient Greek νόσος (nósos, “disease”) and γνῶσις (gnôsis, “knowledge”).
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The ability of a person to recognize his or her own medical disorder.
In addition to the nosognosia task, our participants also completed a lexical decision analogue of this task. All parameters were as for the nosognosia task, except that i) non-target trials involved the presentation of two (different) non-words and target trials involved the presentation of a non-w
Opposite: anosognosia
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noun ability of a person to recognize personal defects
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Talk about this word "nosognosia." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/nosognosia. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. nosognosia. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/nosognosia "nosognosia." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/nosognosia.Cite this
@misc{nosognosia_2026,
title = {nosognosia},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/nosognosia},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
