sense of taste

Questions about sense of taste

What is another word for sense of taste?

It depends which sense of taste you mean. In the sense “the faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and salty properties in the mouth”, the synonyms are taste, gustation, gustatory modality. Across all 1 sense there are 3 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of sense of taste?

WordNet records no antonym for sense of taste. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for sense of taste come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of sense of taste

• Full entry for sense of tasteAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for sense of tasteWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.