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Smells vs Smelling - What's the difference?

smells | smelling |

As nouns the difference between smells and smelling

is that smells is while smelling is the act by which something is smelled.

As verbs the difference between smells and smelling

is that smells is (smell) while smelling is .

smells

English

Noun

(head)

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (smell)

    • smelling

    English

    Verb

    (head)
    • foul-smelling (having a foul smell)
    sweet-smelling (having a sweet smell)

    Derived terms

    * smelling salts

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is smelled.
  • * 2004 , Timothy D. J. Chappell, Reading Plato's Theaetetus (page 73)
    • To such perceivings we give names like these: seeings, hearings, smellings , chillings and burnings, pleasures and pains, desires