gustation

1. 1.

   the faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and salty properties in the mouth

   “his cold deprived him of his sense of taste”

   Synonymstastesense of tastegustatory modality

   Broadermodalityexteroception

Other forms of gustation

plural

gustations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about gustation

What does gustation mean?

gustation means "the faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and salty properties in the mouth".

How many syllables are in gustation?

gustation has 4 syllables: gu-sta-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for gustation?

Close synonyms include taste, sense of taste, gustatory modality. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gustation a common word?

gustation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.