taste, gustation, sense of taste, gustatory modality
(noun) the faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and salty properties in the mouth; “his cold deprived him of his sense of taste”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
gustation (countable and uncountable, plural gustations)
The act of tasting.
The ability to taste flavors; the sense of taste.
Source: Wiktionary
Gus*ta"tion, n. Etym: [L. gustatio: cf. F. gustation.]
Definition: The act of tasting. [R.] Sir T. Browne.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
8 November 2024
(noun) the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another; “replacing the star will not be easy”
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
