Can you describe the differences between a smile and a laugh?
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A smile is an expression of happiness that you make with your face and has no sound while laughter is an explosive vocal sound.
A smile is an expression which can be seen on the face, while a laugh can be heard and enjoyed/shared. ☺️🤣👂🏽
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A smile is a silent way of expressing contentment or satisfaction usually with a positive and happy feeling as the motivation while a laugh is a way of expressing amusement either for positive reasons such as a reaction to a joke or negative reasons such as when harm befalls another individual and is often characterized by orally-generated sounds.
A smile is simple, when you are happy, you smile. You sometimes show your teeth when you smile for a picture. A laugh is more complex, you laugh at something funny. When someone tells a funny joke, you laugh.
smile is a positive gesture in non-verbal communication whereas laugh is a unexpected gesture which can be either positive or negative attitude
A smile is a facial expression where you are happy but laughter is a physical manifestation of total joy
Smile is a small curve on your face only lips are visible , naturally it makes you beautiful. Laugh a big hole in your face shows all your teeth. It makes sound.
Making sounds with your voice and your body to show enjoyment or pleasure is known as laughing. In contrast smiling is the upward curving of your lips to convey joy, pleasure, or amusement.
- SiaVersatile, qualifed ESL tutor
Laughing is often unpredictable/ involuntarily and could be due to numerous emotions( e.g. some people may often laugh instead of crying masking negative emotions or as a coping mechanism) whereas smiling is often predictable/ voluntary and almost always connected to happiness.
smiles are often connected to a positive experience, while laughing is related to something unexpected but not necessarily positive.
