anosmia

1. 1.

   absence of the sense of smell (as by damage to olfactory nasal tissue or the olfactory nerve or by obstruction of the nasal passages)

   Broaderdysomia

Other forms of anosmia

plural

anosmias·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about anosmia

What does anosmia mean?

anosmia means "absence of the sense of smell (as by damage to olfactory nasal tissue or the olfactory nerve or by obstruction of the nasal passages)".

How many syllables are in anosmia?

anosmia has 4 syllables: a-no-smi-a. The stress falls on "no".

Is anosmia a common word?

anosmia is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.