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Odour vs Effluvium - What's the difference?

odour | effluvium | Synonyms |

Odour is a synonym of effluvium.


As nouns the difference between odour and effluvium

is that odour is any smell, whether fragrant or offensive; scent; perfume while effluvium is a gaseous or vaporous emission, especially a foul-smelling one.

odour

English

Alternative forms

* odor (US)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any smell, whether fragrant or offensive; scent; perfume.
  • Something which produces a scent; incense, a perfume.
  • * 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Luke XXIV:
    • On the morow after the saboth, erly in the mornynge, they cam vnto the toumbe and brought the odoures whych they had prepared, and other wemen wyth them.

    Derived terms

    * body odour, body odor * deodorant * deodorise, deodorize * odoriferous * odourless

    effluvium

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A gaseous or vaporous emission, especially a foul-smelling one.
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  • * 1906 , O. Henry,
    • And he breathed the breath of the house—a dank savour rather than a smell—a cold, musty effluvium as from underground vaults mingled with the reeking exhalations of linoleum and mildewed and rotten woodwork.
  • A condition causing the shedding of hair.
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