Difference between Smell and Feel

What is the difference between Smell and Feel?

Smell as a noun is a sensation, pleasant or unpleasant, detected by inhaling air (or, the case of water-breathing animals, water) carrying airborne molecules of a substance. while Feel as a noun is a quality of an object experienced by touch.

Smell

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A sensation, pleasant or unpleasant, detected by inhaling air (or, the case of water-breathing animals, water) carrying airborne molecules of a substance. The sense that detects smells.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To sense a smell or smells. To have the smell (of). To have a particular smell, whether good or bad.

Example sentence: What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

Feel

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A quality of an object experienced by touch.A vague mental impression.An act of fondling.A vague understandingAn intuitive ability

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To become aware of through the skin; to use the sense of touch.To experience an emotion or other mental state about.To find one's way (literally or figuratively) by touching or using cautious movements.To be or become aware of.To experience the consequences of.To think, believe, or have an impression concerning.To receive information by touch or by any neurons other than those responsible for sight, smell, taste, or hearing.To search by sense of touch.To experience and emotion or other mental state.To seem.To sympathise.

Example sentence: Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

We hope you now know whether to use Smell or Feel in your sentence.

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