Anosmia

//æˈnɑːzmiːə// noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Inability to smell; the inability to perceive odors. countable, uncountable

    "Often accompanied by an inability to taste, anosmia occurs abruptly and dramatically in these patients, almost as if a switch had been flipped."

  2. 2
    absence of the sense of smell (as by damage to olfactory nasal tissue or the olfactory nerve or by obstruction of the nasal passages) wordnet

Synonyms

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nose blindnesssmell blindness

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"Often accompanied by an inability to taste, anosmia occurs abruptly and dramatically in these patients, almost as if a switch had been flipped."

Etymology

From New Latin anosmia, equivalent to an- + -osmi.

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