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.

   Synonyms: nose blindness, smell blindness

   • 2021 January 2, Roni Caryn Rabin, “Some Covid Survivors Haunted by Loss of Smell and Taste”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

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

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

  Mandarin: 嗅覺喪失／嗅觉丧失 (xiùjuésàngshī)

• 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: 후각상실(嗅覺喪失) (hugaksangsil)
• Persian: نابویایی
• Polish: anosmia (pl) f, bezwęch m (obsolete)
• Portuguese: anosmia f
• Russian: аносмия (ru) f (anosmija)
• Spanish: anosmia (es) f
• Swedish: anosmi (sv) c
• Turkish: anozmi

Further reading

• anosmia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Maisano, amsonia, anomias

Italian

Noun

anosmia f (plural anosmie)

1. (pathology) anosmia

Anagrams

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

Polish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈnɔs.mja/

• Audio:

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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 Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.nozˈmi.ɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.nozˈmi.ɐ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /a.noʒˈmi.ɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.nozˈmi.a/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.nuʒˈmi.ɐ/

• Hyphenation: a‧nos‧mi‧a

Noun

anosmia f (plural anosmias)

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

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed 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