ambience vs smell

smell vs ambience

ambience and smell both are nouns.

ambience is not a verb while smell is a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
ambience	Yes	No	No	No
smell	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, smell is a hyponym of ambience; that is, smell is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than ambience:

ambience: a particular environment or surrounding influence
smell: the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people

Other hyponyms of ambience include genius loci, gloom, gloominess, glumness, miasm, miasma, feel, feeling, flavor, flavour, look, spirit, tone, headiness.

ambience (noun)	smell (noun)
the atmosphere of an environment	the act of perceiving the odor of something
a particular environment or surrounding influence	any property detected by the olfactory system
	the faculty that enables us to distinguish scents
	the sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form
	the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people

ambience (verb)	smell (verb)
	become aware of not through the senses but instinctively
	emit an odor
	inhale the odor of; perceive by the olfactory sense
	smell bad
	have an element suggestive (of something)

Difference between ambience and smell

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