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Parosmia vs Phantosmia - What's the difference?

parosmia | phantosmia |

As nouns the difference between parosmia and phantosmia

is that parosmia is a distorted sense of smell, often resulting in phantom, non-existent, and mostly unpleasant, smells while phantosmia is a medical condition involving olfactory hallucinations. A form of parosmia in which the perceived smell is caused apparently randomly rather than by a different smell.

parosmia

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A distorted sense of smell, often resulting in phantom, non-existent, and mostly unpleasant, smells.

    • phantosmia

    English

    Noun

    (en noun) (wikipedia phantosmia)
  • A medical condition involving olfactory hallucinations. A form of parosmia in which the perceived smell is caused apparently randomly rather than by a different smell.