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Noun: olfactory modality
  1. The faculty that enables us to distinguish scents
    "The perfumer's keen sense of olfactory modality allowed her to create complex fragrances";
    - smell, sense of smell, olfaction

Derived forms: olfactory modalities

Type of: exteroception, modality, sense modality, sensory system