sense impression vs odor

odor vs sense impression

sense impression and odor both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
sense impression	Yes	No	No	No
odor	Yes	No	No	No

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

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

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

sense impression (noun)	odor (noun)
an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation	any property detected by the olfactory system
	the sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form

Difference between sense impression and odor

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