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Answer for the clue "The general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people ", 7 letters:
flavour

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES artificial flavours ▪ Ice cream often has artificial flavours in it. fuller flavour ▪ Now you can enjoy Nescafé's fuller flavour in a decaffeinated form. mild flavour ▪ a cheese with a pleasant mild flavour subtle ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
chiefly British English spelling of flavor ; for spelling, see -or . Related: Flavoured ; flavourful ; flavouring .

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people; "the feel of the city excited him"; "a clergyman improved the tone of the meeting"; "it had the smell of treason" [syn: spirit , tone , feel , feeling , flavor , look ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The quality produced by the sensation of taste or, especially, of taste and smell in combined effect. 2 A substance used to produce a taste. flavouring. 3 A variety (of taste) attributed to an object. 4 The characteristic quality of something. 5 (context ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
flavour \flavour\ v. t. same as flavor , v. and n.. [Chiefly Brit.] Syn: season, flavor, give flavor.

Usage examples of flavour.

The several varieties of Cress are stimulating and anti-scorbutic, whilst each contains a particular essential principle, of acrid flavour, and of sharp biting qualities.

Lucksparrow had that it was fortunate another member of the profession should be at hand, and by the success with which the Archdeacon, dizzy and yet equable, concealed his own feelings when his visitor, chatting of Prayer Book Revision, parish councils, and Tithe Acts, imported to them a high eternal flavour which savoured of Deity Itself.

In a mood of daring, and remembering the cool flavour of the borage in his lemonade, he chose the former and was rewarded with a glance of approval from Lady Whitton.

In this chamber some half dozen persons were seated in the Eastern fashion, and smoking either the choice tobaccoes of Syria through the cherry-wood or jasmine tube of a Turkish or Egyptian chibouque, or inhaling through rose-water the more artificial flavour of the nargileh, which is the hookah of the Levant.

Besides containing citric and malic acids, the Raspberry affords a volatile oil of aromatic flavour, with crystallisable sugar, pectin, colouring matter, mucus, some mineral salts, and water.

Thus, several of the explicit comments and formulations often cited in literary history contain specific denigrations of ideas as such and have a distinct anti-intellectual flavour to them.

Ty does know how to build perfect machines, in the manner that a human cook can make a perfect stew without the slightest knowledge of how all the flavours affect each other or even how the human nose detects flavour.

It enables the planter to produce a drier bean, and one which has, when roasted, a finer flavour, colour, and aroma, than the unfermented.

These leaves are sometimes boiled, and eaten, but they possess a strong, disagreeable flavour.

They have a strong flavour of the plant, and are sometimes eaten by the peasantry of France.

According to these books, the result of having lived with a brain which we think we direct using a kind of tiller, but which actually is continually affected by cross-winds, occasional storms, rain and warm sun that provokes us into lazy days, is that we have evolved a series of memories with different flavours.

Or, each of us has a personal history which we explain internally by feelings attached to emotional memories, so we have evolved a series of memories with different flavours.

Cameroon cacao sometimes has an objectionable odour and flavour, which may be due to its being fermented in an unripe condition, for, as Dr.

On all the house there is a cold, blank smell like the smell of a little church, though something dryer, suggesting that the dead and buried Dedlocks walk there in the long nights and leave the flavour of their graves behind them.

Joy Hall spunk has several curious properties besides the flavour of egg nog.