anosmia
See also: anosmią
English
Etymology
From New Latin anosmia, based on Ancient Greek ἀν- (an-) + ὀσμή (osmḗ, “smell”).
Noun
anosmia (countable and uncountable, plural anosmias)
- Inability to smell; the inability to perceive odors.
- 2021 January 2, Roni Caryn Rabin, “Some Covid Survivors Haunted by Loss of Smell and Taste”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
- Often accompanied by an inability to taste, anosmia occurs abruptly and dramatically in these patients, almost as if a switch had been flipped.
- Synonyms: nose blindness, smell blindness
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Translations
inability to smell
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Italian
Polish
Etymology
From New Latin anosmia, from an- Ancient Greek ὀσμή (osmḗ).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aˈnɔs.mja/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɔsmja
- Syllabification: a‧nos‧mia
Declension
Spanish
Etymology
From New Latin anosmia, from Ancient Greek ἀν- (an-) and ὀσμή (osmḗ, “smell”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aˈnosmja/ [aˈnoz.mja]
- Rhymes: -osmja
- Syllabification: a‧nos‧mia
Derived terms
Further reading
- “anosmia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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