olfaction

Questions about olfaction

What is another word for olfaction?

It depends which olfaction you mean. In the sense “the faculty that enables us to distinguish scents”, the synonyms are smell, sense of smell, olfactory modality. Across all 1 sense there are 3 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of olfaction?

WordNet records no antonym for olfaction. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for olfaction come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of olfaction

• Full entry for olfactionAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for olfactionWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.