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The sense of smell; the detection of airborne molecules.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
the faculty that enables us to distinguish scents
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: smell, sense of smell, olfactory modality
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: modality, sense modality, sensory system, exteroception
Narrower terms: nose
Borrowed from Middle French olfaction /olefaction, from Latin olfactus, perfect passive participle of olfaciō (“to smell (transitive)”) + -tion.
Across languages
Translations
61 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Arabic:
شَمّ
(šamm)
— the sense of smell
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Armenian:
հոտառություն
(hotaṙutʻyun)
— the sense of smell
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Basque:
usaimen
— the sense of smell
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Belarusian:
нюх
(njux)
— the sense of smell
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Bulgarian:
обоня́ние
(obonjánie)
— the sense of smell
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Bulgarian:
нюх
(njuh)
— the sense of smell
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Catalan:
olfacte
— the sense of smell
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Catalan:
olfacció
— the sense of smell
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Chinese Cantonese:
嗅覺 /嗅觉
(cau3 gok3)
— the sense of smell
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Chinese:
嗅覺 /嗅觉
(hiù-kak)
— the sense of smell
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Chinese Mandarin:
嗅覺 /嗅觉
(xiùjué)
— the sense of smell
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Czech:
čich
— the sense of smell
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Dutch:
reukzin
— the sense of smell
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Esperanto:
flarsenso
— the sense of smell
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Finnish:
hajuaisti
— the sense of smell
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Finnish:
haistaminen
— the sense of smell
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Finnish:
haju
— the sense of smell
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French:
olfaction
— the sense of smell
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French:
odorat
— the sense of smell
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Galician:
olfacto
— the sense of smell
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Galician:
olfate
— the sense of smell
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Galician:
álido
— the sense of smell
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Galician:
ulido
— the sense of smell
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Galician:
cheiro
— the sense of smell
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Galician:
ventas
— the sense of smell
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German:
Geruchssinn
— the sense of smell
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German:
Geruch
— the sense of smell
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Greek:
όσφρησις
(ósfrisis)
— the sense of smell
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Hindi:
गंधानुभूति
(gandhānubhūti)
— the sense of smell
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Hungarian:
szaglás
— the sense of smell
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Italian:
olfatto
— the sense of smell
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Italian:
odorato
— the sense of smell
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Japanese:
嗅覚
(kyūkaku)
— the sense of smell
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Korean:
후각
(hugak)
— the sense of smell
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Latin:
olfactus
— the sense of smell
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Latvian:
oža
— the sense of smell
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Lithuanian:
uoslė
— the sense of smell
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Macedonian:
мирис
(miris)
— the sense of smell
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Macedonian:
сетило за мирис
(setilo za miris)
— the sense of smell
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Norwegian Bokmål:
luktesans
— the sense of smell
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Persian:
بویایی
— the sense of smell
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Polish:
węch
— the sense of smell
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Portuguese:
olfato
— the sense of smell
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Portuguese:
faro
— the sense of smell
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Romanian:
miros
— the sense of smell
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Russian:
обоня́ние
(obonjánije)
— the sense of smell
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Russian:
нюх
(njux)
— the sense of smell
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Serbo-Croatian:
њу̑х
— the sense of smell
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Serbo-Croatian:
njȗh
— the sense of smell
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Slovak:
čuch
— the sense of smell
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Slovene:
voh
— the sense of smell
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Spanish:
olfato
— the sense of smell
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Swedish:
luktsinne
— the sense of smell
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Swedish:
lukt
— the sense of smell
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Tajik:
шомма
(šomma)
— the sense of smell
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Turkish:
koku alma duyusu
— the sense of smell
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Turkish:
koku duyusu
— the sense of smell
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Turkish:
olfaksiyon
— the sense of smell
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Ukrainian:
нюх
(njux)
— the sense of smell
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Vietnamese:
khứu giác
— the sense of smell
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Walloon:
oda
— the sense of smell