tactile agnosia

1. 1.

   a loss of the ability to recognize objects by handling them

   Synonymsastereognosis

   Broaderagnosia

Questions about tactile agnosia

What does tactile agnosia mean?

tactile agnosia means "a loss of the ability to recognize objects by handling them".

What is another word for tactile agnosia?

Close synonyms include astereognosis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tactile agnosia a common word?

tactile agnosia is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.