Home › Words › N › nosognosianosognosianosognosia means the ability of a person to recognize his or her own medical disorder.EtymologyFrom the Ancient Greek νόσος (nósos, “disease”) and γνῶσις (gnôsis, “knowledge”).nounThe ability of a person to recognize his or her own medical disorder.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.anosognosia 83% match — The inability of a person to recognize his or her own illness or handicap. vs nosognosia →anosognosic 67% match — Of, pertaining to or exhibiting anosognosia. vs nosognosia →eugnosia 64% match — The normal ability to recognise people or things vs nosognosia →asomatognosia 62% match — A deficiency in the awareness of parts on one's own body. vs nosognosia →autognosis 60% match — Self-knowledge; the understanding of one's character and peculiarities. vs nosognosia →abarognosis 59% match — A loss of the ability to realise or estimate the weight of an object. vs nosognosia →agnosia 58% match — The inability to recognise objects by use of the senses. vs nosognosia →dysgnosia 57% match — mental illness vs nosognosia →