anosognosia
Definitions
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- noun The inability of a person to recognize his or her own illness or handicap.
Examples
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Another, shorter article, in the same issue, discusses a condition called anosognosia, where a brain-injured patient may be unaware of, or seem to deny, sometimes quite striking disabilities - for example, being blind or paralysed.
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Such an "anosognosia," as it is called, is at once a mercy (such patients do not suffer or anguish over or lament their loss) and a major problem, for it undercuts understanding and motivation, and makes attempts to remediate the condition much more difficult.
Note
The word 'anosognosia' comes from the Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, "not, without") and νόσος (nosos, "disease") and γνῶσις (gnosis, "knowledge").
