olfaction

Questions about olfaction

What does olfaction mean?

olfaction means "the faculty that enables us to distinguish scents".

How many syllables are in olfaction?

olfaction has 4 syllables and divides as ol-fac-ti-on under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for olfaction?

Close synonyms include smell, sense of smell, olfactory modality. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is olfaction a common word?

olfaction 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.