sense experience vs smell

smell vs sense experience

sense experience and smell both are nouns.

sense experience is not a verb while smell is a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
sense experience	Yes	No	No	No
smell	Yes	No	Yes	No

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

sense experience: an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation
smell: the sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form

Other hyponyms of sense experience include limen, threshold, masking, vision, visual sensation, odor, odour, olfactory perception, olfactory sensation, gustatory perception, gustatory sensation, taste, taste perception, taste sensation, auditory sensation, sound, synaesthesia, synesthesia, subception, subliminal perception.

sense experience (noun)	smell (noun)
an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation	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

sense experience (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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