anosmia

anosmia

See also: anosmią

English

Etymology

From New Latin anosmia, based on Ancient Greek ἀν- (an-) + ὀσμή (osmḗ, “smell”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /æˈnɒzmiə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /æˈnɑːzmiːə/

Noun

anosmia (countable and uncountable, plural anosmias)

1. Inability to smell; the inability to perceive odors.
   • 2021 January 2, Roni Caryn Rabin, “Some Covid Survivors Haunted by Loss of Smell and Taste”, in The New York Times‎, ISSN 0362-4331:

     Often accompanied by an inability to taste, anosmia occurs abruptly and dramatically in these patients, almost as if a switch had been flipped.

   Synonyms: nose blindness, smell blindness

Coordinate terms

• ageusia
• blindness
• deafness

Derived terms

• anosmic

Related terms

• hyperosmia
• hyposmia
• parosmia

Translations

inability to smell

Catalan: anòsmia f Chinese: please add this translation if you can Czech: anosmie f, čichotupost f Esperanto: anosmio Finnish: anosmia (fi) French: anosmie (fr) f German: Anosmie (de) f Greek: ανοσμία (el) f (anosmía) Hebrew: תתרנות‎, תתרנית‎ f Italian: anosmia (it) f Japanese: please add this translation if you can Korean: please add this translation if you can Persian: نابویایی‎ Polish: anosmia (pl) f, bezwęch m (obsolete) Portuguese: anosmia f Russian: аносмия (ru) f (anosmija) Spanish: anosmia f Swedish: anosmi (sv) c

Further reading

• anosmia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Maisano, amsonia, anomias

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Italian

Noun

anosmia f (plural anosmie)

1. (pathology) anosmia

Anagrams

• Maisano, animosa, ansiamo, osimana, samoani, saniamo

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Polish

Etymology

From New Latin anosmia, from an- Ancient Greek ὀσμή (osmḗ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈnɔs.mja/

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• Rhymes: -ɔsmja
• Syllabification: a‧nos‧mia

Noun

anosmia f

1. anosmia, smell blindness

   Synonym: (obsolete) bezwęch

Declension

Declension of anosmia

	singular	plural
nominative	anosmia	anosmie
genitive	anosmii	anosmii/anosmij (archaic)
dative	anosmii	anosmiom
accusative	anosmię	anosmie
instrumental	anosmią	anosmiami
locative	anosmii	anosmiach
vocative	anosmio	anosmie

Further reading

• anosmia in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• anosmia in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Portuguese

Noun

anosmia f (plural anosmias)

1. (pathology) anosmia (the inability to smell)

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Spanish

Etymology

From New Latin anosmia, from Ancient Greek ἀν- (an-) and ὀσμή (osmḗ, “smell”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈnosmja/ [aˈnoz.mja]
• Rhymes: -osmja
• Syllabification: a‧nos‧mia

Noun

anosmia f (plural anosmias)

1. (pathology) anosmia

Derived terms

• anósmico

Further reading

• “anosmia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014