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Odor

Any smell, whether fragrant or offensive; scent; perfume.

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Acridity 76% connected

Alt. of Acridness

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Aroma 76% connected

The quality or principle of plants or other substances which constitutes their fragrance; agreeable odor; as, the aroma of coffee.

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Bouquet 76% connected

A nosegay; a bunch of flowers.

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Fetidness 76% connected

The quality or state of being fetid.

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Fetor 76% connected

A strong, offensive smell; stench; fetidness.

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Foetor 76% connected

Same as Fetor.

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Foulness 76% connected

The quality or condition of being foul.

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Fragrance 76% connected

Alt. of Fragrancy

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Fragrancy 76% connected

The quality of being fragrant; sweetness of smell; a sweet smell; a pleasing odor; perfume.

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Malodor 76% connected

An Offensive to the sense of smell; ill-smelling.

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Mephitis 76% connected

Noxious, pestilential, or foul exhalations from decomposing substances, filth, or other source.

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Muskiness 76% connected

The quality or state of being musky; the scent of musk.

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Perfume 76% connected

To fill or impregnate with a perfume; to scent.

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Rancidness 76% connected

The quality of being rancid.

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Rankness 76% connected

The condition or quality of being rank.

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Redolence 76% connected

Alt. of Redolency

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Reek 76% connected

A rick.

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Scent 76% connected

To perceive by the olfactory organs; to smell; as, to scent game, as a hound does.

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Stank 76% connected

Weak; worn out.

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Stench 76% connected

To stanch.

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Stink 76% connected

To emit a strong, offensive smell; to send out a disgusting odor.

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Sweetness 76% connected

The quality or state of being sweet (in any sense of the adjective); gratefulness to the taste or to the smell; agreeableness.

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Aesthesis 76% connected

Sensuous perception.

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Property 76% connected

That which is proper to anything; a peculiar quality of a thing; that which is inherent in a subject, or naturally essential to it; an attribute; as,…

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Sensation 76% connected

An impression, or the consciousness of an impression, made upon the central nervous organ, through the medium of a sensory or afferent nerve or one o…

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Inodorous 66% connected

Emitting no odor; wthout smell; scentless; odorless.

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Inodorous 66% connected

Emitting no odor; wthout smell; scentless; odorless.

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Odorous 66% connected

Having or emitting an odor or scent, esp. a sweet odor; fragrant; sweet-smelling.

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Odorous 66% connected

Having or emitting an odor or scent, esp. a sweet odor; fragrant; sweet-smelling.

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Aroma 92% connected

The quality or principle of plants or other substances which constitutes their fragrance; agreeable odor; as, the aroma of coffee.

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Odour 92% connected

the sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form; "she loved the smell of roses"

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Scent 92% connected

To perceive by the olfactory organs; to smell; as, to scent game, as a hound does.

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Smell 92% connected

To perceive by the olfactory nerves, or organs of smell; to have a sensation of, excited through the nasal organs when affected by the appropriate ma…

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