anosognosia
noun
anosognosia is spelled A-N-O-S-O-G-N-O-S-I-A. The wrong spelling people search most is anosagnosia: about 60 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 50 of all searches for the word. Anosognosia is a noun meaning “The inability of a person to recognize their own illness or handicap”. The plural of anosognosia is anosognosias.
How do you spell anosognosia?
Anosognosia is spelled A-N-O-S-O-G-N-O-S-I-A. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 50 of the searches for anosognosia in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
What does anosognosia mean?
noun
- 1
The inability of a person to recognize their own illness or handicap.
- 2
A failure to be aware of a defect or deficit resulting from disability, due to a brain injury (e.g. Anton-Babinski syndrome).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of anosognosia
- anosognosias plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is anosognosia?
Anosognosia appears about once in every 62 million words in written English, the 246,401st most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Anosognosia in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense inability of a person to recognize personal defects:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | anosognosie |
| German | Anosognosie |
| Portuguese | anosognosia |
| Spanish | anosognosia |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does anosognosia come from?
From a- (“not”) + noso- (“disease”) + -gnosia (“knowledge”), from Ancient Greek ἁ- (ha-) + νόσος (nósos) + γνῶσις (gnôsis).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).