Seasoning vs Spice - What's the difference?
seasoning | spice |
(cooking) Something used to add taste or flavour to food, such as a condiment, herb or spice.
A coat of burnt soot inside a cooking vessel, which has formed over repeated use, and which renders the surface non sticking.
(countable, uncountable) Plant matter (usually dried) used to season or flavour food.
(figurative, uncountable) Appeal, interest; an attribute that makes something appealing, interesting, or engaging.
(uncountable, Yorkshire) Sweets, candy.
(obsolete) Species; kind.
* Wyclif Bible, 1 Thessalonians v. 22
* Sir T. Elyot
To add spice or spices to.
(nonce word)
Spice is a hypernym of seasoning.
As nouns the difference between seasoning and spice
is that seasoning is something used to add taste or flavour to food, such as a condiment, herb or spice while spice is plant matter (usually dried) used to season or flavour food.As verbs the difference between seasoning and spice
is that seasoning is present participle of lang=en while spice is to add spice or spices to.seasoning
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(wikipedia spice)Etymology 1
From (etyl) espice (modern .Noun
- Abstain you from all evil spice .
- Justice, although it be but one entire virtue, yet is described in two kinds of spices . The one is named justice distributive, the other is called commutative.