This week’s theme
Words related to the senses

This week’s words
proprioception
macrosmatic
photophobia
amusia
gustatory

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(mak-rahz-MAT-ik)

MEANING:

adjective: Having a well-developed sense of smell.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Greek macro- (large) + osmatic, from French osmatique, from Greek osme (smell). Earliest documented use: 1890.

USAGE:

“[George Orwell was] a macrosmatic writer tracking down the stench of hypocrisy or the gangrene of intellectual treachery.”
Dennis Potter; Despair and an Acre of Calm; The Times (London, UK); Oct 5, 1968.

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