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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | flavor of some quality |
| Synonyms: | aftertaste, aroma, bang*, bitter, drive, ginger, jolt, kick*, oomph, palatableness, piquancy, punch*, relish, salt, sapidity, sapor, savor, savoriness, smack, sour, sting*, suggestion, sweet, tang, wallop, zest, zing, zip |
| Concept: | [Good taste.] Taste. |
| Category: | 2. Discriminative Affections |
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-nouns
taste; good taste, refined taste, cultivated taste; delicacy, refinement, fine feeling, gust, gusto, tact, finesse; nicety (discrimination); ; polish, elegance, grace., virtu; delettanteism; fine art; culture, cultivation., [Science of taste] aesthetics., man of taste; connoisseur, judge, critic, conoscent, virtuoso, amateur, dilettant, Aristarchus, Corinthian, arbiter elegantiarum, stagirite, euphemist., "caviare to the general" [Hamlet].
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| Antonyms: | vulgarity |
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