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Apr 23, 2024
This week’s theme
Words related to the senses

This week’s words
proprioception
macrosmatic
photophobia
amusia
gustatory

macrosmatic
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macrosmatic

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.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
This above all: to thine own self be true, / And it must follow, as the night the day, / Thou canst not then be false to any man. -William Shakespeare, poet and dramatist (23 Apr 1564-1616)

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