scentlessness

English

Etymology

scentless +‎ -ness

Noun

scentlessness (uncountable)

  1. The state or condition of being scentless.
    • 1934, Henry G. Lamond, An Aviary On The Plains, page 221:
      It must be, I think, that Nature has endowed the young of ground-nesting birds with a scentlessness which is a form of negative protection from their enemies - if one may use such a definition.
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