相そう貌ぼう失しつ認にん

noun

prosopagnosia; face blindness

Medical/psychological term for the inability to recognize faces, including one's own. Also known as face blindness.

• 相そう貌ぼう失しつ認にんの人ひとは、親したしい友ゆう人じんの顔かおさえ区く別べつできないことがある。

  People with prosopagnosia may be unable to distinguish even the faces of close friends.

• 彼かれは相そう貌ぼう失しつ認にんと診しん断だんされた。

  He was diagnosed with prosopagnosia.