astereognosis
C2CEFR level
98/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
An inability to identify objects by touch alone despite intact primary sensation.
With her eyes closed she could feel the coin but showed astereognosis, unable to name it.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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