no, Belf is not a word

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[–] 16 points 2 years ago (1 child)
  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years 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.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years 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.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    Loss of ability to smell is called anosmia

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    [–] 2 points 2 years 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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