Agnosis
/æɡˈnəʊsɪs/ noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Epistemologically necessary lack of, indifference to, denial or shunning of knowledge; defective knowledge. countable, uncountable
"And finally, we come to the agnosis, the most important of them all, […] I do not refer to the agnosis or the ignorance of cancer in general."
Antonyms
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More examples"And finally, we come to the agnosis, the most important of them all, […] I do not refer to the agnosis or the ignorance of cancer in general."
Etymology
Derived from Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, “without, lacking”) + γνῶσις (gnôsis, “knowledge”), literally, “lacking knowledge”.