olfaction
nounUS /oʊlˈfækʃən/
Etymology Borrowed from Middle French olfaction /olefaction, from Latin olfactus, perfect passive participle of olfaciō (“to smell (transitive)”) + -tion.
1
The sense of smell; the detection of airborne molecules.
- ‘I think the single most extraordinary aspect of olfaction is that we all smell the world differently,’ Beauchamp told me.2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 105:
- Antonyms
- anosmia
- Derived terms
- vomerolfaction
- Hypernyms
- sense
- Holonyms
- five senses, six senses