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June 26

Need help thinking up a name for a fictional disorder

So, this character lives in a mixed furry-human universe, so there's anthropomorphic bipedal animal characters running around. This disorder causes him to perceive all characters as human; so even if he's talking to a male brown-furred anthro wolf, he sees a male brown-haired human.

What would be a good fictional name for this disorder, using like Greco-Latin roots or amybe another method of naming? 2605:A000:F9E0:C400:4963:BEDA:5687:E73F (talk) 21:26, 26 June 2014 (UTC)

How about "open-mindedness". Treating everyone the same rather than considering some superior and some inferior. Either that or maybe he's extremely nearsighted and can't tell one from the other. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 21:32, 26 June 2014 (UTC)

a-thero-gnosia? This would be a type of agnosia and follows the example of many of the conditions listed at that article. --Amble (talk) 21:35, 26 June 2014 (UTC)

How about Thurberneurosis? As with this idea, similar to the OP's.[1] ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 21:38, 26 June 2014 (UTC)

Homophantophrenia (homo=the genus of hominids; phanto=phantom; phrenia= fromphrenos, "mind"; see φρενός").--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 21:52, 26 June 2014 (UTC)

Anthropophaenia (clumsily attempting to use a Greek root that may mean ‘appearance’)? —Tamfang (talk) 22:55, 26 June 2014 (UTC)

Xenoagnosia? "Xeno" for them thar "fur"iners, "agnosia" for not knowing. Clarityfiend (talk) 01:30, 27 June 2014 (UTC)

Xenaagnosia for those who don't recognize warrior princesses. Clarityfiend (talk) 11:20, 27 June 2014 (UTC)

I'd go with Auntie Prosopagnosianna, if your character was an older woman. Since he doesn't seem to be, maybe Wembley? InedibleHulk (talk) 01:52, 27 June 2014 (UTC)

Oh wait, right. The disorder. Just antiprosopagnosia, then. What is his name, if you don't mind me asking? InedibleHulk (talk) 01:54, 27 June 2014 (UTC)

You could always just name it in the manner of Bright's disease or Tourette syndrome, after the doctor who first described it — whose name, of course, you get to invent. (Current US practice is to use the name as an adjective; traditional practice and current British practice is to make it possessive. You get to decide that too.) --70.49.171.225 (talk) 11:17, 27 June 2014 (UTC)

"Severe anthropomorphic syndrome", or "SAS". Just don't tell the pharmaceutical companies about it or there will suddenly be studies (funded by them) proving it's existence and drugs marketed to control it, but never cure it. StuRat (talk) 16:42, 30 June 2014 (UTC)