olfactory sensation

Questions about olfactory sensation

What does olfactory sensation mean?

olfactory sensation means "the sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form".

What is another word for olfactory sensation?

Close synonyms include smell, odor, odour, olfactory perception. 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 sensation a common word?

olfactory sensation 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.