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parosmia

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /pəˈɹɒz.mɪ.ə/
  • Received-Pronunciation: /-ˈɹɒs-/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • General-American: /pəˈɹɑz.mi.ə/
  • General-American: /-ˈɹɑs-/

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noun

Meaning 1

A distorted sense of smell, often resulting in the apparent detection of non-existent smells which are mostly unpleasant.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: medicine, pathology, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: parosmis, troposmia

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From para- (prefix meaning ‘abnormal’) + -osmia (suffix denoting diseases connected to smelling).

Across languages

Translations

20 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: خطل شمي — distorted sense of smell
  • Azerbaijani: parosmiya — distorted sense of smell
  • Catalan: paròsmia — distorted sense of smell
  • Czech: parosmie — distorted sense of smell
  • Dutch: parosmie — distorted sense of smell
  • Finnish: parosmia — distorted sense of smell
  • French: parosmie — distorted sense of smell
  • German: Parosmie — distorted sense of smell
  • Japanese: 刺激性異嗅症 (shigekiseīkyūshou) — distorted sense of smell
  • Korean: 착후각증 (chakhugakjeung) — distorted sense of smell
  • Persian: بویاییپریشی — distorted sense of smell
  • Polish: kakosmia — distorted sense of smell
  • Polish: parosmia — distorted sense of smell
  • Portuguese: parosmia — distorted sense of smell
  • Romanian: parosmie — distorted sense of smell
  • Spanish: parosmia — distorted sense of smell
  • Swedish: parosmi — distorted sense of smell
  • Ukrainian: паросмія (parosmija) — distorted sense of smell
  • Ukrainian: какосмія (kakosmija) — distorted sense of smell
  • Ukrainian: тропосмія (troposmija) — distorted sense of smell