Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act or faculty of tasting.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of tasting; the sense of taste; the gustatory function.
Wiktionary
- n. The act of tasting.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. rare The act of tasting.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and salty properties in the mouth
Etymologies
- Latin gustātiō, gustātiōn-, an appetizer, from gustātus, past participle of gustāre, to taste, from gustus, taste; see gusto. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“A challenge to across-the-board representationalism comes from experiences in modalities where it is unclear whether the experiences represent happenings in the space outside the body, such as gustation, olfaction, and experiences of afterimages.”
“And if any have been so happy as truly to understand Christian annihilation, ecstasies, exolution, liquefaction, transformation, the kiss of the spouse, gustation of”
“I have tried it at Pizza hut as well, but it didnt appeal my gustation.”
“As to legal ramifications of sinful gustation, CKE seems covered two ways: nutritional data is readily available, and their marketing is to young adults, not kids.”
Forbes: CKE's Puzder Touts Thickburgers, Mocks 'Health Craze'
“The truth is I taste a lot, many things, and often, and because of my love of tasting I often do so in the company of other people passionate about gustation.”
“On the other hand, civilization, house-building, warm apartments and kitchen fires, well-stored larders, and especially exemption from rude toil, abolish these extreme caricatures; and keeping appetite down to a middling level by the rote of meals, and thus taking away the incentives to ravenous haste, they allow the mind to tutor and variegate the tongue, and to substitute the harmonies and melodies of deliberate gustation for such unseemly bolting.”
“Yet this savour, according to Locke, did not reside at first in the pineapple, to be conveyed on contact to the palate and to the mind; but it was generated in the process of gustation; or perhaps we should rather say that it was generated in the mind on occasion of that process.”
“Christian annihilation, ecstasies, exolution, liquefaction, transformation, the kiss of the spouse, gustation of God and ingression into the divine shadow.”
“Christian annihilation, ecstasies, exolution, liquefaction, transformation, the kiss of the spouse, gustation of God, and ingression into the divine shadow, they have already had an handsome anticipation of heaven; the glory of the world is surely over, and the earth is ashes unto them.”
“Still this Phæacian enjoyment is innocent enough; not ascetic is the trait, yet not sensual; to-day good people usually eat and drink without the song of bard or other spiritual entertainment accompanying the material one of gustation.”
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Logolepsy
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Food--and our love for it!
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refection, gourmand, hedonist, foodie, gustation, gustatory, pescatarian, piscatory, postprandial, abligurition, haslet, epicurean and 5 more...
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jumelle, kef, kenspeckle, lautitious, essentic, pilpulistic, impavid, cicurant, clou, chrysostomic, miasma, teleology and 1625 more...
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The Five? Senses
sight, vision, hearing, audition, taste, gustation, smell, olfaction, touch, tactition, mechanoreception, stereopsis and 17 more...
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