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gustfulness en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈɡʌstfəlnəs/

Etymology

From gustful + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (obsolete, uncountable) Appealing taste; tastiness.
    • It was not any gustfulness in those herbs which they eat, which caused them to gather them, or the force of long-established habit, but the extremity of want. 1774, Thomas Harmer, Observations on Various Passages of Scripture:
    • Then his food doth taste savourily, then his divertisements and recreations have a lively gustfulness. a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number)”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1830–1831, →OCLC: