taste perception

Questions about taste perception

What does taste perception mean?

taste perception 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 taste perception?

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

taste perception 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.