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smellings

smellings is the plural of smelling.

Meaning of smelling

Noun

smelling (plural smellings)

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

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Questions about smellings

What is smellings the plural of?
Smellings is the plural of smelling.

Words near smellings in the dictionary

  1. smelling salts
  2. smelling the barn
  3. smelling the coffee
  4. smelling up
  5. smelling what someone is stepping in
  6. smellings
  7. smellproof
  8. smells
  9. smells a rat
  10. smells and bells
  11. smells blood

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