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gustfulness

noun
/ˈɡʌstfəlnəs/

Etymology

From gustful + -ness.

  1. derived from *ǵʰew-✻
  2. derived from *gustiz✻
  3. derived from gustr — “a gust, blast”
  4. inherited from *gust✻
  5. suffixed as gustful — “gust + ful”
  6. suffixed as gustfulness — “gustful + ness”

Definitions

  1. Appealing taste

    Appealing taste; tastiness.

    • Then his food doth taste savourily, then his divertisements and recreations have a lively gustfulness.
    • 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.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA