different between blindness vs anosmia

English

Etymology

From Middle English blyndnes, blyndnesse, from Old English blindnes (“blindness”), equivalent to blind +? -ness.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bla?ndn?s/
• Hyphenation: blind?ness

Noun

blindness (usually uncountable, plural blindnesses)

1. The condition of being blind; unable to see.
2. (figuratively) Want of intellectual or moral discernment; mental darkness; ignorance, heedlessness.
3. (obsolete) concealment

Synonyms

• ablepsy (rare)
• blindhood (rare)
• cecity
• sightlessness

Derived terms

• colour blindness, color blindness
• deaf-blindness, deafblindness
• snow blindness
• stereoblindness

Translations

See also

• anosmia
• deafness

References

• blindness in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• “blindness”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000

English

Etymology

From New Latin anosmia, based on Ancient Greek ??- (an-) + ???? (osm?, “smell”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /æ?n??zmi??/

Noun

anosmia (countable and uncountable, plural anosmias)

1. Inability to smell; the inability to perceive odors.

Related terms

• anosmic

Translations

Coordinate terms

• hyposmia
• ageusia
• blindness
• deafness

Further reading

• anosmia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Maisano, amsonia, anomias

Italian

Noun

anosmia f (plural anosmie)

1. (pathology) anosmia

Anagrams

• animosa, ansiamo, samoani, saniamo

Polish

Etymology

From New Latin anosmia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?n?s.m?a/

Noun

anosmia f

1. anosmia, smell blindness

   Synonym: bezw?ch

Declension

Further reading

• anosmia in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Noun

anosmia f (plural anosmias)

1. (pathology) anosmia (inability to smell)

Spanish

Etymology

From New Latin anosmia, from Ancient Greek ??- (an-) and ???? (osm?, “smell”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?nosmja/, [a?noz.mja]
• Rhymes: -osmja
• Hyphenation: 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.