mouthfeel

English

Etymology

mouth +‎ feel

Noun

mouthfeel (countable and uncountable, plural mouthfeels)

1. The texture of food, drink, etc. as perceived by the mouth.

   Coordinate terms: handfeel, skinfeel

   • 1962, Samuel A. Matz, Food Texture‎^[1], Westport, CT: The AVI publishing company, page 41:

     Liquid foods which are essentially Newtonian fluids may be considered to have their texture or “mouthfeel” adequately described by their viscosity.

   • 2018 August 24, Cross, Katherine, “The Oscar Wilde of YouTube fights the alt-right with decadence and seduction”, in The Verge‎^[2]:

     “So to start with,” Adria says, “it doesn’t get as hard, it doesn’t really ejaculate, and it has a different mouthfeel. Can we please talk about the mouthfeel? Why is no one talking about the mouthfeel?” she repeats, looking straight into the camera through her clear-framed glasses as the camera zooms in.

Translations

texture perceived by mouth

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 口感 (zh) (kǒugǎn)

• Dutch: mondgevoel
• Finnish: suutuntuma
• German: Mundgefühl
• Hebrew: תחושה בפה‎ f
• Hungarian: kortyérzet (literally “sip feeling”) (beverages only)
• Japanese: 食感
• Spanish: textura en boca f
• Swedish: munkänsla
• Yiddish: רושם אין מויל‎ m (royshem in moyl)