modality vs sense of smell

sense of smell vs modality

modality and sense of smell both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
modality	Yes	No	No	No
sense of smell	Yes	No	No	No

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

modality: a particular sense
sense of smell: the faculty that enables us to distinguish scents

Other hyponyms of modality include sight, vision, visual modality, visual sense, somatosense, audition, auditory modality, auditory sense, hearing, sense of hearing, gustation, gustatory modality, sense of taste, taste, olfaction, olfactory modality, smell.

modality (noun)	sense of smell (noun)
a method of therapy that involves physical or electrical therapeutic treatment	the faculty that enables us to distinguish scents
a particular sense
a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility
verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker

Difference between modality and sense of smell

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