smell vs sense experience

sense experience vs smell

smell and sense experience both are nouns.

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

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

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

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

Other hypernyms of smell include aesthesis, esthesis, sensation, sense datum, sense impression.

smell (noun)	sense experience (noun)
the act of perceiving the odor of something	an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation
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

smell (verb)	sense experience (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 sense experience

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