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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

no, Belf is not a word

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Commonly the slightly clumsy sounding "nose blind"?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Nose blind is something I've heard being used about dogs or other animals. They get so locked into a scent that they ignore everything else.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

“Anosmic”. Not as euphonious as the others, but there you go.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Why don’t we have a word though? This is more of a medical diagnosis

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That’s an interesting question, and I don’t know. The only alternatives for English I found were somewhat obvious combos like “smell blindness”. If I had to guess, probably it just isn’t common or disabling enough to come up often, so it doesn’t get its own word.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Think it is the word for the symptom rather than the diagnosis, much like deaf or blind are, just that English doesn't have a casual term for it.

The lack of a casual term may be because though the sense of smell is very useful & has a safety/survival component, being anosmic is unlikely to leave a person requiring much by way of additional skills and/or tools relative to deafness or blindness.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Loss of ability to smell is called anosmia

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You say "Belf is not a word ", but couldn't we simply... make "Belf" a word that meant "smell-deaf"?

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