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no, Belf is not a word

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[–] snacks@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why don’t we have a word though? This is more of a medical diagnosis

[–] TQuid@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

That’s an interesting question, and I don’t know. The only alternatives for English I found were somewhat obvious combos like “smell blindness”. If I had to guess, probably it just isn’t common or disabling enough to come up often, so it doesn’t get its own word.

[–] apis@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Think it is the word for the symptom rather than the diagnosis, much like deaf or blind are, just that English doesn't have a casual term for it.

The lack of a casual term may be because though the sense of smell is very useful & has a safety/survival component, being anosmic is unlikely to leave a person requiring much by way of additional skills and/or tools relative to deafness or blindness.