nonscent

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

non- +‎ scent

Noun[edit]

nonscent (countable and uncountable, plural nonscents)

  1. Absence of scent.
    • 2012, A. M. Homes, This Book Will Save Your Life:
      He breathed deeply—nonscent. The house had no smell at all except that it smelled clean, almost lemony and crisp.
    • 2017, Chris Vola, Only the Dead Know Brooklyn, page 141:
      The rank postparty stench that he had woken up to had been replaced by a sterile hospital nonscent, the faintest chemical whiff.
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