modality vs smell

smell vs modality

modality and smell both are nouns.

modality is not a verb while smell is a verb.

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

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

modality: a particular sense
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, sense of smell.

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

modality (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)

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