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- noun Absence of
odor .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Vodka had to be used for its property of odorlessness, but it was an awfully boring drink day in and out.
The Houseguest Thomas Berger 2008
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They identified water by observable characteristics like colorlessness and odorlessness, but also assumed that there was a microstructure which explains these observable properties.
Narrow Mental Content Brown, Curtis 2007
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It had a wet, swampy smell that made the gunslinger feel nauseous and a little lightheaded after the antiseptic odorlessness of the desert and the stable.
The Gunslinger King, Stephen, 1947- 1982
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Family after family learned to prize the cleanliness and quiet, the odorlessness and flylessness of a home without a kitchen, and their questioning guests were converted by the excellent of the meals.
What Diantha Did Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1897
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Philosophy professor Carol Cleland, from the University of Colorado, and Chris Chyba, an astronomy student of Carl Sagan’s who now teaches at Princeton University, have argued for almost a decade that current definitions of “life” are little different from medieval definitions of “water,” which was seen then as a clear liquid with certain qualities such as wetness, transparency, tastelessness, odorlessness, and the property of being a very good solvent.
First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011
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Philosophy professor Carol Cleland, from the University of Colorado, and Chris Chyba, an astronomy student of Carl Sagan’s who now teaches at Princeton University, have argued for almost a decade that current definitions of “life” are little different from medieval definitions of “water,” which was seen then as a clear liquid with certain qualities such as wetness, transparency, tastelessness, odorlessness, and the property of being a very good solvent.
First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011
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