olfactory impairment

1. 1.

   a disorder in the sense of smell

   Synonymsdysosmiaparosamia

   Broaderdisorder

Questions about olfactory impairment

What does olfactory impairment mean?

olfactory impairment means "a disorder in the sense of smell".

What is another word for olfactory impairment?

Close synonyms include dysosmia, parosamia. 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 olfactory impairment a common word?

olfactory impairment 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.