gno-, gnos-, gnoto-, -gnostic, -gnosia, -gnomic, -gnomonic, -gnomical, -gnomy, -gnosia, -gnostic, -gnosis +

1. The lack of any ability to estimate the weight of an object one is holding.
2. A lack of conscious perception of weight; the faculty by which weight is not recognized; such as, when an object is placed in the hand.

Knowledge of or the study of remedies or cures.

A knowledge of or study of remedies or cures.

To ignorance.

The complete phrase is argumentum ad ignorantiam. Used in law, it is an argument in a trial that may be based on ad ignorantiam; that is, on one's opponent's ignorance of the facts in the case.

Also, a judicial decision may be appealed ad ignorantiam; that is, on the basis that the case was decided without knowledge of important information which was known but was unrevealed during the trial.

Of unknown cause or spontaneous origin; of the nature of idiopathic or an idiopathy (a pathologic condition of unknown cause or spontaneous origin).

1. The doctrine concerning those things of which we are necessarily ignorant.
2. The science or study of ignorance, which determines its quality and conditions.

1. The inability to recognize certain sensory stimuli.
2. A loss of the ability to comprehend the meaning or to recognize the importance of various types of stimulation.
3. Total or partial loss of the ability to recognize familiar objects, often resulting from brain damage.
4. Loss of the ability to recognize persons or objects and their meanings.
5. In medicine, a loss of comprehension at the level of the central nervous system of any of the senses; the sensory sphere is intact, but the patient is unable to assimilate the meaning of the sense.

1. The inability to recognize and interpret the meaning and significance of sensory information, whether visual, auditory, or tactile even though the ability to perceive and record the primary sensory modality is intact.
2. Unable to recognize familiar objects due to brain damage.

1. Not known, unknown; an assertion of the uncertainty of all claims to knowledge; coined by Thomas Huxley in 1870.
2. One who believes the existence of God is unknown, but does not deny the possibility that God exists.
3. Someone who thinks it is impossible to know whether there is a God, future life, or anything beyond material phenomena and who is unwilling to accept supernatural revelation.

1. The disbelief in any claims of ultimate knowledge.
2. The doctrine that certainty about first principles or absolute truth is unattainable and that only perceptual phenomena are objects of exact knowledge.
3. A religious orientation of doubt; a denial of ultimate knowledge of the existence of God: "Agnosticism holds that you can neither prove nor disprove God's existence."

1. The apparent unawareness of or failure to recognize one's own functional defect (e.g., hemiplegia, hemianopsia).
2. The lack of interest or belief in the existence of one's disease.
3. Real or feigned ignorance of the presence of disease, especially of paralysis.

An argument based on an adversary's ignorance of facts in a controversy.

1. The inability to determine the form of an object by touch.
2. Loss of the ability to recognize the shapes of objects by handling them; tactile agnosia.
3. The inability to recognize familiar objects by touch that cannot be explained by a defect of elementary tactile sensation.

The science or knowledge of the stars; especially, the fixed stars.

1. The inability to correctly locate a point or place of a touch.
2. The inability to discern the origin of a sensation.