Odorant vs Odor - What's the difference?
odorant | odor |
Any substance that has a distinctive smell, especially one added to something (such as household gas) for safety purposes
Any smell, whether fragrant or offensive; scent; perfume.
* 1895 , H. G. Wells, The Time Machine Chapter X
(figuratively) A strong, pervasive quality.
Esteem; repute.
As nouns the difference between odorant and odor
is that odorant is any substance that has a distinctive smell, especially one added to something (such as household gas) for safety purposes while odor is any smell, whether fragrant or offensive; scent; perfume.As an adjective odorant
is having an odour / odour.odorant
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Alternative forms
* odourantNoun
(en noun)Derived terms
* deodorant * reodorantAnagrams
* * * ----odor
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(wikipedia odor)Alternative forms
* odourNoun
- Now, I still think that for this box of matches to have escaped the wear of time for immemorial years was a strange, and for me, a most fortunate thing. Yet oddly enough I found here a far more unlikely substance, and that was camphor. I found it in a sealed jar, that, by chance, I supposed had been really hermetically sealed. I fancied at first the stuff was paraffin wax, and smashed the jar accordingly. But the odour of camphor was unmistakable.