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olfaction

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9 lettersPronunciation /oʊlˈfækʃən/Part of speech nounSorted acfilnootStarts with OEnds with N0 clues
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Definitions

  1. the faculty that enables us to distinguish scents

Word origin

Borrowed from Middle French olfaction /olefaction, from Latin olfactus, perfect passive participle of olfaciō (“to smell (transitive)”) + -tion.

Used in a sentence

  • ‘I think the single most extraordinary aspect of olfaction is that we all smell the world differently,’ Beauchamp told me.

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