nonscent
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[edit]Noun
[edit]nonscent (countable and uncountable, plural nonscents)
- 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- The rank postparty stench that he had woken up to had been replaced by a sterile hospital nonscent, the faintest chemical whiff.