taste sensation

Questions about taste sensation

What is another word for taste sensation?

It depends which taste sensation you mean. In the sense “the sensation that results when taste buds in the tongue and throat convey information about the chemical composition of a soluble stimulus”, the synonyms are taste, gustatory sensation, taste perception, gustatory perception. Across all 1 sense there are 4 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 taste sensation?

WordNet records no antonym for taste sensation. 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 taste sensation 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 taste sensation

• Full entry for taste sensationAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for taste sensationWhether 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.