Dictionary

anosmia en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /æˈnɒzmiə/ (UK)
• /æˈnɑːzmiːə/ (US)
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Etymology

From New Latin anosmia, equivalent to an- + -osmi.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Inability to smell; the inability to perceive odors.
   • Often accompanied by an inability to taste, anosmia occurs abruptly and dramatically in these patients, almost as if a switch had been flipped. 2021 January 2, Roni Caryn Rabin, “Some Covid Survivors Haunted by Loss of Smell and Taste”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
   • The survey also showed that odor blindness—known as specific anosmia—to androstenone and Galaxolide are related. For the 1.3 percent of readers unable to smell any two odors, these two scents were paired with overwhelming frequency (92 percent). This result is new; in connecting these two specific anosmias, we may discover more about each. 1987 October, Avery N. Gilbert and Charles J. Wysocki, “Results of the Smell Survey”, in National Geographic, volume 172, number 4, pages 516-517:

Forms

Coordinates

ageusia · blindness · deafness

Deriveds

anosmic

Relateds

hyperosmia · parosmia · hyposmia

Synonyms

nose blindness · smell blindness

Translations (24)

cs anosmie (inability to smell) · cs čichotupost (inability to smell) · ca anòsmia (inability to smell) · pt anosmia (inability to smell) · sv anosmi (inability to smell) · de Anosmie (inability to smell) · eo anosmio (inability to smell) · es anosmia (inability to smell) · fa نابویایی (inability to smell) · pl anosmia (inability to smell) · he תתרנות (inability to smell) · tr anozmi (inability to smell) · cmn 嗅覺喪失 /嗅觉丧失 (inability to smell) · el ανοσμία (inability to smell) · ur بطلان الشم (inability to smell) · he תתרנית (inability to smell) · fr anosmie (inability to smell) · ko 후각상실 (inability to smell) · tr koku kaybı (inability to smell) · ru аносмия (inability to smell) · pl bezwęch (inability to smell) · ur فقد الشم (inability to smell) · it anosmia (inability to smell) · fi anosmia (inability to smell)