Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having no odor.
- Of or affected with anosmia.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective of or pertaining to anosmia.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having
anosmia ; lacking a sense of smell. - noun A person lacking a sense of
smell .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having impaired sense of smell
- adjective relating to an impairment or loss of the sense of smell
Etymologies
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Examples
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As an anosmic, I don't want to believe that I am completely shut off from detecting human emotions.
Correlation Found Between Sense of Smell and Emotional Sensitivity 2009
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As an anosmic, I don't want to believe that I am completely shut off from detecting human emotions.
Correlation Found Between Sense of Smell and Emotional Sensitivity » E-Mail 2009
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Unless you were born anosmic and your brain was never wired to depend on the primal sense for so much, well, happiness.
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Moreover, you can't imagine what it's like not to be able to taste, or smell, unless you're anosmic.
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Unless you were born anosmic and your brain was never wired to depend on the primal sense for so much, well, happiness.
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Moreover, you can't imagine what it's like not to be able to taste, or smell, unless you're anosmic.
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I was able to smell until I was 27 years old and now, having been anosmic for ten years I can taste just fine.
Lipstick making - ingredients & melting Anne-Marie 2008
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Next to them we are downright anosmic: smelling nothing.
INSIDE OF A DOG ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ 2009
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Next to them we are downright anosmic: smelling nothing.
INSIDE OF A DOG ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ 2009
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It is so powerful that I cannot imagine anyone being anosmic to it.
A Garden of Memories: Histoires de Parfums Vert Pivoine Marina Geigert 2009
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