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Olfaction

//oʊlˈfækʃən// noun

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Noun
  1. 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."

  2. 2
    the faculty that enables us to distinguish scents wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French olfaction /olefaction, from Latin olfactus, perfect passive participle of olfaciō (“to smell (transitive)”) + -tion.

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