gustation
noun
gustation is a noun meaning “The act of tasting” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled G-U-S-T-A-T-I-O-N, and it appears about once in every 89 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of gustation is gustations.
What does gustation mean?
noun
- 1
The act of tasting.
- 2
The ability to taste flavors; the sense of taste.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of gustation
- gustations plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is gustation?
Gustation appears about once in every 89 million words in written English, the 301,415th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Gustation in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense The ability to taste flavors; the sense of taste:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does gustation come from?
Borrowed from Latin gustatio, gustationis.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).