gustation
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Noun (1)
- the faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and salty properties in the mouth“his cold deprived him of his sense of taste”Synonyms: tastesense of tastegustatory modalityType of modality, exteroception
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Gus·ta′tion noun
Origin: L. gustatio: cf. F. gustation.
The act of tasting. rare Sir Thomas Browne
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54