gustatory
adjective
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Gustatory is a member of a finite set of words that describe the senses with which we encounter our world, the other members being visual, aural, olfactory, and tactile. Like its peers, gustatory has its roots in Latin—in this case, the Latin word gustare, meaning "to taste." Gustare is a direct ancestor of gustatory, gustation, meaning "the act or sensation of tasting," and degustation, meaning "the action or an instance of tasting especially in a series of small portions." More distant relatives of gustare include choose and disgust.
Examples of gustatory in a Sentence
Laura Randall, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2024
Extreme gustatory indulgence is also popular at Milkcraft, which has locations in West Hartford Center, Fairfield and, most recently, New Haven.
—Deborah Hornblow, courant.com, 3 July 2019
San Diego’s craft beer culture puts itself at a gustatory disadvantage: Many beers made in the county don’t fall under the official guidelines.
—Daniel Wheaton, sandiegouniontribune.com, 6 Oct. 2017
My gustatory goal for the weekend was to visit the two best barbecue joints in Dallas.
—Andy Staples, SI.com, 30 June 2017
There was a coldness to the experience, a sense that all the sous vide–ing and mise en place–ing and tweezering had somehow frozen the joy, the gustatory pleasure, the hot, messy act of cooking.
—Julia Kramer, Bon Appetit, 8 June 2017
Behind her in the assembly line, a potbellied man in his late 30s peppers her with the gustatory queries that pass for small talk in south India.
—Ellen Barry, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2016
Who knows how many dodos were killed to satisfy gustatory curiosity?
—Brian Switek, WIRED, 12 Dec. 2011
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“Gustatory.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gustatory. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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