anosmia

Noun

anosmia (countable and uncountable, plural anosmias)

1. Inability to smell; the inability to perceive odors.
   • The survey also showed that odor blindness—known as specific anosmia—to androstenone and Galaxolide are related. For the 1.3 percent of readers unable to smell any two odors, these two scents were paired with overwhelming frequency (92 percent). This result is new; in connecting these two specific...1987 October, Avery N. Gilbert and Charles J. Wysocki, “Results of the Smell Survey”, in National Geographic, volume 172, number 4, pages 516-517
   • Often accompanied by an inability to taste, anosmia occurs abruptly and dramatically in these patients, almost as if a switch had been flipped.2021 January 2, Roni Caryn Rabin, “Some Covid Survivors Haunted by Loss of Smell and Taste”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

   Synonyms:

   nose blindness, smell blindness