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Odour vs Hyposmia - What's the difference?

odour | hyposmia |

As nouns the difference between odour and hyposmia

is that odour is any smell, whether fragrant or offensive; scent; perfume while hyposmia is a reduced ability to smell and to detect odours.

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

    hyposmia

    English

    Noun

    (en noun) (wikipedia hyposmia)
  • A reduced ability to smell and to detect odours.

    • See also

    * anosmia

    Antonyms

    * hyperosmia