Smelling

Verb

1. Present participle of smell
2. Used in adjectival compounds.foul-smelling (having a foul smell)sweet-smelling (having a sweet smell)

Derived terms

• smelling salts

Full definition of smelling

Noun

1. The act by which something is smelled.
• 2004, Timothy D. J. Chappell, Reading Plato's Theaetetus (page 73)To such perceivings we give names like these: seeings, hearings, smellings, chillings and burnings, pleasures and pains, desires ...