1. A neurological condition in which a person is unable to recognize or remember faces, even of people they know well, despite having normal vision and memory in other areas.
Usage: medical term; also called face blindness

Examples

• After the accident, she developed prosopagnosia and could no longer recognize her own family members by their faces.
• People with prosopagnosia often rely on other cues like voice, gait, or clothing to identify individuals.
• The neurologist explained that prosopagnosia results from damage to specific regions of the brain responsible for facial recognition.
• Some individuals are born with prosopagnosia, a condition known as developmental prosopagnosia.
• He struggled with prosopagnosia at his high school reunion, unable to match faces to names despite knowing many classmates.