the inability to determine the shape of an object by touching or feeling it
Word origin
[1895–1900; a-6 + stereo- + -gnosis]This word is first recorded in the period 1895–1900. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Marxism, cutback, flamenco, frame of reference, hit-and-runstereo- is a combining form borrowed from Greek, where it meant “solid”, used with referenceto hardness, solidity, three-dimensionality in the formation of compound words. Otherwords that use the affix stereo- include: stereochemistry, stereogram, stereoscope