What does olfactory modality mean?

olfactory modality means "the faculty that enables us to distinguish scents".

What is another word for olfactory modality?

Close synonyms include smell, sense of smell, olfaction. 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 modality a common word?

olfactory modality 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.

olfactory modality — meaning, pronunciation and definition

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1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
the faculty that enables us to distinguish scents
Synonymssmell sense of smell olfaction
Broadermodality exteroception
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