VI. WORDS RELATING TO THE SENTIMENT AND MORAL POWERS
II. PERSONAL AFFECTIONS
2. Discriminative Affections
[Good taste.] Taste.
[Antonyms: vulgarity.]
[Nouns] taste; good taste, refined taste, cultivated taste; delicacy, refinement, fine feeling, gust, gusto, tact, finesse; nicety (discrimination) [more]; ; 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].
[Verbs] appreciate, judge, criticise, discriminate [more]
[Adjectives] in good taste, cute, tasteful, tasty; unaffected, pure, chaste, classical, attic; cultivated, refined; dainty; aesthetic, artistic; elegant [more]; euphemistic.
to one's taste, to one's mind; after one's fancy; comme il faut; tire a quatre epingles.
[Phrases] nihil tetigit quod non ornavit [from Johnson's epitaph on Goldsmith]; chacun a son gout; oculi pictura tenentur aures cantibus [Cicero].
