gustfulness

English

Etymology

gustful +‎ -ness

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈɡʌstfəlnəs/

Noun

gustfulness (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Appealing taste; tastiness.
    • a. 1677, Isaac Barrow, Of Industry in General (sermon):
      Then his food doth taste savourily, then his divertisements and recreations have a lively gustfulness.
    • 1774, Thomas Harmer, Observations on Various Passages of Scripture:
      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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