taste
Roget-categorie 850
6. Words relating to the sentient and moral› 6.2. Personal affections
›› 6.2.2. Discriminative affections
#850.
[Good taste.]
Taste
zelfstandig naamwoord
taste —
good taste,
refined taste,
cultivated taste —
delicacy,
refinement,
fine feeling,
gust,
gusto,
tact,
finesse —
nicety
etc.
(discrimination)
465 —
to prepon [Gr.] —
polish,
elegance,
grace.
judgment,
discernment
etc.
465.
dilettantism,
dilettanteism —
virtu —
fine art —
culture,
cultivation.
[Science of taste]
aesthetics.
man of taste
&c. —
connoisseur,
judge,
critic,
conoscente,
virtuoso,
amateur,
dilettante,
Aristarchus†,
Corinthian,
arbiter elegantiarum [Lat.],
stagirite†,
euphemist.
caviare to the general"
[Hamlet].
werkwoord
appreciate,
judge,
criticise,
discriminate
etc.
465
bijvoeglijk naamwoord
in good taste,
cute,
tasteful,
tasty —
unaffected,
pure,
chaste,
classical,
attic —
cultivated,
refined —
dainty —
esthetic,
aesthetic,
artistic —
elegant
etc.
578 —
euphemistic.
to one's taste,
to one's mind —
after one's fancy —
comme il faut [Fr.] —
tire a quatre epingles [Fr.].
bijwoord
elegantly
etc.
adj..
uitdrukking
nihil tetigit quod non ornavit [Lat.]
[from Johnson's epitaph on Goldsmith];
chacun a son gout [Fr.] —
oculi pictura tenentur aures cantibus [Lat.]
[Cicero].
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