smell vs modality

modality vs smell

smell and modality both are nouns.

smell is a verb but modality is not a verb.

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

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

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

Other hypernyms of smell include sense modality, sensory system, exteroception.

smell (noun)	modality (noun)
the act of perceiving the odor of something	a method of therapy that involves physical or electrical therapeutic treatment
any property detected by the olfactory system	a particular sense
the faculty that enables us to distinguish scents	a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility
the sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form	verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker
the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people

smell (verb)	modality (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 modality

Words related to "smell"

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