stigma noun (DISAPPROVAL) âº us â /ËstÉªÉ¡Â·mÉ/ [ C/U ] a strong lack of respect for a person or a group of people or a bad opinion of them because they have done something society does not approve of: [ C usually sing ] Thereâs a stigma associated with low-income food programs.
LINK / CITE ADD TO WORD LIST. noun. The definition of ambience, or ambiance, is a specific feeling or mood connected to a specific person, place, or thing. An example of ambience is the feeling of romance associated with a candlelight dinner, wine, and soft music...noted changes from the period of Jesus â lifetime to that of Paul in ambience and social composition of the Jesus movement; with implications for both core religious views and anti-Jewish polemical stances.
[Herald Sun] Evidently, too many coffee shops in town have had their ambience wrecked when itinerant word processors with laptops turn the tables into office space. [New York Times]. A mbience and ambiance are different spellings of the same word, referring to the special atmosphere or mood of a particular environment.While some dictionaries list ambiance as the standard spelling, ambience is far more common in all main 21st-century varieties of English.tâs worth noting, though, that ambiance tends to take precedence in contexts relating to art and design, but this is by no means a rule, and exceptions abound. Ambiance is the French word from which the English one derives, and ambience is an Anglicization.