Scentlessness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The state or condition of being scentless. uncountable

    "It must be, I think, that Nature has endowed the young of ground-nesting birds with a scentlessness which is a form of negative protection from their enemies - if one may use such a definition."

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"It must be, I think, that Nature has endowed the young of ground-nesting birds with a scentlessness which is a form of negative protection from their enemies - if one may use such a definition."

Etymology

From scentless + -ness.

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