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Smelling vs Clairalience - What's the difference?

smelling | clairalience |

As nouns the difference between smelling and clairalience

is that smelling is the act by which something is smelled while clairalience is the ability for a person to acquire psychic knowledge by means of smelling.

As a verb smelling

is .

smelling

English

Verb

(head)
    • foul-smelling (having a foul smell)
    sweet-smelling (having a sweet smell)

    Derived terms

    * smelling salts

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is smelled.
  • * 2004 , Timothy D. J. Chappell, Reading Plato's Theaetetus (page 73)
    • To such perceivings we give names like these: seeings, hearings, smellings , chillings and burnings, pleasures and pains, desires

    clairalience

    English

    Noun

  • the ability for a person to acquire psychic knowledge by means of smelling.

    • See also

    * clairvoyance * clairaudience * clairsentience * claircognizance * clairgustance