smelling

verb, noun — 3 senses

smelling

verb

/ˈsmɛlɪŋ/

1

Gerund, Participle, Present present participle and gerund of smell

2

Used in adjectival compounds.

foul-smelling (having a foul smell)
sweet-smelling (having a sweet smell)

Derived terms: smelling salts, unsmelling

smelling

noun

1

The act by which something is smelled.

To such perceivings we give names like these: seeings, hearings, smellings, chillings and burnings, pleasures and pains, desires […]2004, Timothy D. J. Chappell, Reading Plato's Theaetetus, page 73:

Derived terms: smock-smelling

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