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Definition of Olfactory perception
1. Noun. The sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form. "She loved the smell of roses"
Generic synonyms: Aesthesis, Esthesis, Sensation, Sense Datum, Sense Experience, Sense Impression
Specialized synonyms: Scent, Aroma, Fragrance, Perfume, Scent, Fetor, Foetor, Malodor, Malodour, Mephitis, Reek, Stench, Stink, Acridity
Derivative terms: Odorize, Odourise, Smell, Smell, Smell
Lexicographical Neighbors of Olfactory Perception
Literary usage of Olfactory perception
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Psychology by Michael Maher (1890)
"As revealing future gustatory experiences, and giving timely warning of poisonous
or unwholesome food, olfactory perception becomes an instrument of ..."
2. The Elements of Scientific Psychology by Knight Dunlap (1922)
"Although odors are conveyed to the nasal receptors from distant objects, there
is no olfactory perception of direction, and little of distance. ..."
3. Instinct and Intelligence in the Animal Kingdom: A Critical Contribution to by Erich Wasmann (1903)
"The constant connection of the olfactory perception of the smoke with a feeling
of itching and the consequent impulse to scratch themselves, was apparently ..."
4. Psychopathia Sexualis, with Especial Reference to the Antipathic Sexual by Richard Krafft-Ebing (1922)
"... have a very decided influence in inducing sexual excitement.1 In beasts the
influence of olfactory perception on the sexual sense is unmistakable. ..."
5. Psychopathia Sexualis: With Especial Reference to the Antipathic Sexual by Richard Krafft-Ebing (1906)
"He shows that animals of opposite sexes are drawn to each other by means of
olfactory perception, and that almost all animals, at the time of rutting, ..."
6. Psychology: Empirical and Rational by Michael Maher (1909)
"As revealing future gustatory experiences, and giving timely warning of poisonous
or unwholesome food, olfactory perception becomes an instrument of ..."
7. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1875)
"Destruction of the gray matter of the lower part of the temporo-sphenoidal lobe
in immediate relation to the region of olfactory perception abolishes the ..."
8. Lectures on the science of human life by Sylvester Graham (1849)
"... that he used often to confound gustatory with olfactory perception in his
mind, and suppose he tasted qualities which in reality he smelt. ..."
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