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prosopagnosia


Definition of prosopagnosia

noun

[mass noun] Psychiatry
  • the inability to recognize the faces of familiar people, typically as a result of damage to the brain.

Origin:

1950s: modern Latin, from Greek prosōpon 'face' + agnōsia 'ignorance'

prosopagnosia in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of prosopagnosia in the US English dictionary