gustatory sensation

Questions about gustatory sensation

What does gustatory sensation mean?

gustatory sensation means "the sensation that results when taste buds in the tongue and throat convey information about the chemical composition of a soluble stimulus".

What is another word for gustatory sensation?

Close synonyms include taste, taste sensation, taste perception, gustatory perception. 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 gustatory sensation a common word?

gustatory sensation 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.