Anomia vs. Agnosia — What's the Difference?

Aphasia characterized by the impaired ability to recall the names of persons and things.

Agnosia is the inability to process sensory information. Often there is a loss of ability to recognize objects, persons, sounds, shapes, or smells while the specific sense is not defective nor is there any significant memory loss.

(neurology) The inability to remember names.

Inability to interpret sensations and hence to recognize things, typically as a result of brain damage

(neurology) The difficulty in finding the right word.

Loss of the ability to interpret sensory stimuli, usually leading to the inability to identify or recognize objects using one or more senses.

A genus of bivalve shells, allied to the oyster, so called from their unequal valves, of which the lower is perforated for attachment.

(neurology) The inability to recognize objects by use of the senses.

Inability to name objects or to recognize written or spoken names of objects

Inability to recognize objects by use of the senses

Type genus of the family Anomiidae: saddle oysters