smell vs ambiance

ambiance vs smell

smell and ambiance both are nouns.

smell is a verb but ambiance is not a verb.

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

As nouns, ambiance is a hypernym of smell; that is, ambiance is a word with a broader meaning than smell:

smell: the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people
ambiance: a particular environment or surrounding influence

Other hypernyms of smell include ambience, atmosphere.

smell (noun)	ambiance (noun)
the act of perceiving the odor of something	the atmosphere of an environment
any property detected by the olfactory system	a particular environment or surrounding influence
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

smell (verb)	ambiance (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 smell and ambiance

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