sensory system vs smell

smell vs sensory system

sensory system and smell both are nouns.

sensory system is not a verb while smell is a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
sensory system	Yes	No	No	No
smell	Yes	No	Yes	No

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

sensory system: a particular sense
smell: the faculty that enables us to distinguish scents

Other hyponyms of sensory system 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.

sensory system (noun)	smell (noun)
the body's system of sense organs	the act of perceiving the odor of something
a particular sense	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

sensory system (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 sensory system and smell

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