ambience — the feeling or mood associated with a place due to its atmosphere
ambiente — the Spanish and Italian cognates of the same meaning
Typically I spell “ambience” as “ambiance,” which is a variant spelling for the word, and it’s also the French cognate of the same meaning. Since we took “ambience” from French, it makes more sense for us to spell it…
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