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AMBIENCE

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• AMBIENCE (noun)
The noun AMBIENCE has 2 senses:

1. a particular environment or surrounding influence
2. the atmosphere of an environment

Familiarity information: AMBIENCE used as a noun is rare.

• AMBIENCE (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A particular environment or surrounding influence

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

ambiance; ambience; atmosphere

Context example:

there was an atmosphere of excitement

Hypernyms ("ambience" is a kind of...):

condition; status (a state at a particular time)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ambience"):

genius loci (the special atmosphere of a place)

gloom; gloominess; glumness (an atmosphere of depression and melancholy)

miasm; miasma (an unwholesome atmosphere)

feel; feeling; flavor; flavour; look; smell; spirit; tone (the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people)

vibe; vibration (a distinctive emotional atmosphere; sensed intuitively)

Sense 2

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Meaning:

The atmosphere of an environment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

ambiance; ambience

Hypernyms ("ambience" is a kind of...):

environment; environs; surround; surroundings (the area in which something exists or lives)

"A fool and his money are soon parted."
(English proverb)
"That which is obvious does not need to be explained."
(Afghanistan proverb)
"Those who are far from the eye are far from the heart."
(Arabic proverb)
"A good dog gets a good bone."
(Corsican proverb)

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