exteroception vs smell

smell vs exteroception

exteroception and smell both are nouns.

exteroception is not a verb while smell is a verb.

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

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

exteroception: sensitivity to stimuli originating outside of the body
smell: the faculty that enables us to distinguish scents

Other hyponyms of exteroception include sight, vision, visual modality, visual sense, cutaneous senses, sense of touch, skin senses, touch, touch modality, audition, auditory modality, auditory sense, hearing, sense of hearing, gustation, gustatory modality, sense of taste, taste, olfaction, olfactory modality, sense of smell.

exteroception (noun)	smell (noun)
sensitivity to stimuli originating outside of the body	the act of perceiving the odor of something
	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

exteroception (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 exteroception and smell

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