taste sensation

Questions about taste sensation

What does taste sensation mean?

taste 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 taste sensation?

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

taste 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.