olfaction

English

Head anatomy with olfactory nerve.

From Latin olfactus.

olfaction (plural olfactions)

The sense of smell; the detection of airborne molecules.
- 2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 105:
  ‘I think the single most extraordinary aspect of olfaction is that we all smell the world differently,’ Beauchamp told me.

the sense of smell

Arabic: شَمّ‎ m (šamm)
Armenian: հոտառություն (hy) (hotaṙutʿyun)
Basque: usaimen (eu)
Belarusian: нюх m (njux)
Bulgarian: обоня́ние (bg) n (obonjánie), нюх (bg) m (njuh)
Catalan: olfacte (ca) m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 嗅覺, 嗅觉 (cau³ gok³)
Mandarin: 嗅覺／嗅觉 (zh) (xiùjué)
Min Nan: 嗅覺, 嗅觉 (hiù-kak)
Czech: čich (cs) m
Dutch: reukzin (nl) m
Esperanto: flarsenso
Finnish: hajuaisti (fi), haistaminen (fi), haju (fi)
French: olfaction (fr) f, odorat (fr) m
Galician: olfacto (gl) m, olfate m, álido m, ulido m, cheiro (gl) m, ventas (gl) f
German: Geruchssinn (de) m
Greek: όσφρησις f (ósfrisis)
Hindi: गंधानुभूति m (gandhānubhūti)
Hungarian: szaglás (hu)
Italian: olfatto (it) m, odorato (it) m
Japanese: 嗅覚 (ja) (きゅうかく, kyūkaku)
Korean: 후각 (ko) (hugak)
Latin: olfactus m
Latvian: oža f
Lithuanian: uoslė f
Macedonian: мирис m (miris), сетило за мирис n (setilo za miris)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: luktesans m
Persian: بویایی‎ (fa)
Polish: węch (pl) m
Portuguese: olfato (pt) m, faro (pt) m
Romanian: miros (ro) n
Russian: обоня́ние (ru) n (obonjánije), нюх (ru) m (njux)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: њу̑х m
Roman: njȗh (sh) m
Slovak: čuch (sk) m
Slovene: voh m
Spanish: olfato (es) m
Swedish: luktsinne (sv), lukt (sv)
Tajik: шомма (šomma)
Turkish: koku alma duyusu (tr), koku duyusu, olfaksiyon
Ukrainian: нюх m (njux)
Vietnamese: khứu giác (vi)
Walloon: oda (wa)

From Latin olfactus +‎ -ion.

olfaction f (plural olfactions)