Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In medicine, a defect or loss of taste, occurring in colds and fevers, or arising from nervous disease.
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- noun Alternative spelling of
ageusia .
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Examples
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From the family lawyer telling us he has been crying to the effusive ageustia of empty-headed Hollywood entertainment merchants – enough!
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From the family lawyer telling us he has been crying to the effusive ageustia of empty-headed Hollywood entertainment merchants – enough!
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a - geustia ` tasting 'ageustia ` no sense of taste'
she commented on the word ageustia
Loss or impairment of the sense of taste (also ageusia)
Begs for figurative use!
July 9, 2008
jmjarmstrong commented on the word ageustia
JM wonders if absence makes the ageustia no longer.
March 12, 2010