prosopagnosie
French, noun/pʁo.zɔ.pa.ɲo.zi/
prosopagnosie is a French feminine noun meaning “prosopagnosia” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Agnosie visuelle spécifique dans laquelle une personne peut percevoir les traits d’un visage, mais ne…”.
What does prosopagnosie mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineprosopagnosia
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Agnosie visuelle spécifique dans laquelle une personne peut percevoir les traits d’un visage, mais ne parvient pas, selon les cas, à les intégrer en une configuration faciale individualisable ou à associer cette configuration à une identité, ce qui empêche la reconnaissance des visages, même familiers.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of prosopagnosie
- prosopagnosies plural
- prosopoagnosie rare
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce prosopagnosie?
- /pʁo.zɔ.pa.ɲo.zi/
- \pʁɔ.zɔ.pa.ɡno.zi\
- \prɔ.zɔ.pa.njɔ.zi\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to prosopagnosie
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is prosopagnosie in French?
prosopagnosie appears about once in every 45 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).