sense of taste
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- noun
- /sɛns əv teɪst/
- My friend has a remarkable sense of taste and can distinguish between dozens of flavors in food.
- lose your sense of taste
- strong sense of taste
- develop your sense of taste
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- Your, your sense of taste will come back, your sense of smell will come back.
- It's a indication of the miracle that is the human sense of taste.
- So yeah, to this day, no sense of taste, no sense of smell really.
- And then disrupting my sense of taste for some period of time afterward when I.
Examples
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And second, I have a highly developed sense of taste and smell.
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Among the other penalties exacted by cancer—by the chemotherapy, really—was that he lost his sense of taste.
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So yeah, to this day, no sense of taste, no sense of smell really.
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That could be the sense of taste and the sense of smell.
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In fact, her sense of taste was not damaged.
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Looking for different ways to trick our sense of taste has become an active area of scientific research.
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I feel like I've lost my sense of taste and smell.
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For the first eighteen months of his life after surgery, his sense of taste had deserted him.
Fiction book (2001) -
I have a close friend who, due to an accident, lost his senses of taste and smell; I'm trying to re-teach him how to cook.
Blog text (13) -
Molly's experience of regaining a rich and deep sense of taste also underlies how, for each of us, our sense of taste is connected to our emotional experiences.
Synonyms
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A sense in the mouth that notices flavors like sweet and bitter
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A person's ability to taste and enjoy different foods
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A feeling in the mouth when the tongue notices flavor
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A sense that lets you taste and tell different flavors like sweet or bitter
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Ability to notice and understand flavors in the mouth from food and drink
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The sense of taste when chemicals from food touch your tongue
The ability to notice and name tastes like sweet, sour, bitter, and salty
The sense of taste when taste buds detect chemicals in the mouth
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'sense' (a physical faculty) + 'of' (linking noun) + 'taste' (the ability to perceive flavors) yields the faculty for tasting. This noun phrase follows a common cross-linguistic pattern (e.g. Spanish 'sentido del gusto', French 'sens du goût') and would be immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows the parts.
Etymology
The noun sense of taste combines the word sense, meaning an ability, and taste, meaning what your tongue notices. Imagine a lemon on your tongue and you quickly know it is 'sour', so the phrase means the ability to tell flavors like 'sweet', 'sour', 'bitter', or 'salty'.