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Princeton's WordNet
smell, sense of smell, olfaction, olfactory modality(noun)
the faculty that enables us to distinguish scents
Synonyms:
smell, olfactory sensation, olfactory property, flavour, feel, feeling, flavor, look, olfaction, spirit, aroma, odour, scent, smelling, tone, odor, olfactory modality, olfactory perception
Words popularity by usage frequency
rank | word | |
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#446 | look | |
#873 | feel | |
#2181 | spirit | |
#2935 | feeling | |
#4082 | tone | |
#8314 | smell | |
#8705 | flavor | |
#12497 | odor | |
#13121 | scent | |
#17423 | aroma | |
#18059 | flavour | |
#26717 | smelling | |
#33915 | odour | |
#138639 | olfaction |
How to use sense of smell in a sentence?
What we've known for a long time is one of the major causes of smell loss are upper respiratory tract infections due to viruses -- a common cold, influenza -- a subset of people lose their sense of smell, most of them temporarily, but a small subset lose that smell permanently.
Training an animal with a strong and reliable sense of smell to help detect disease in a vast country like Tanzania could potentially offer a valuable solution to help detecting the disease.
I'm at almost two weeks now and about 70 % of my sense of smell has returned. One nostril is doing better than the other nostril.
For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that you use it so little.
Deaf, blind and disoriented, Tosca was found stumbling around in her cage on Monday, she lost her sense of smell. It was a pathetic sight. Veterinarians, animal protection officials and zoo officials came to a joint decision to put the elderly Tosca out of her misery.
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