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Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]olfaction (plural olfactions)
- The sense of smell; the detection of airborne molecules.
- 2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 105:
- ‘I think the single most extraordinary aspect of olfaction is that we all smell the world differently,’ Beauchamp told me.
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[edit]Translations
[edit]the sense of smell
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Further reading
[edit]French
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[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]olfaction f (plural olfactions)
Further reading
[edit]- “olfaction”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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