prosopagnosia
C1CEFR level
65/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
An impaired ability to recognise familiar faces despite intact vision and general intellect.
His prosopagnosia meant he identified his own wife only by her voice and the coat she habitually wore.
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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