GUSTATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gustation mean? 

• GUSTATION (noun)
  The noun GUSTATION has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: GUSTATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GUSTATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

gustation; gustatory modality; sense of taste; taste

Context example:

his cold deprived him of his sense of taste

Hypernyms ("gustation" is a kind of...):

modality; sense modality; sensory system (a particular sense)

exteroception (sensitivity to stimuli originating outside of the body)

Derivation:

gustatorial; gustatory (of or relating to gustation)