Noun: olfaction
| Singular | olfaction |
| Plural | olfactions |
Sample Sentences
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‘I think the single most extraordinary aspect of olfaction is that we all smell the world differently,’ Beauchamp told me. [2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 105:]
Nouns inflected like olfaction
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French olfaction /olefaction, from Latin olfactus, perfect passive participle of olfaciō (“to smell (transitive)”) + -tion. See: Latin Nouns '
olfactus'.