gustfulness

English

Etymology

gustful +‎ -ness

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡʌstfəlnəs/

Noun

gustfulness (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Appealing taste; tastiness.
   • a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number). Of Industry in General”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1830–1831, →OCLC:

     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.