noun
- A feeling of understanding.
- synonyms: insight, perceptivity
- Delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values. )
- usage: "arrogance and lack of taste contributed to his rapid success"; "to ask at that particular time was the ultimate in bad taste"
- synonyms: taste, appreciation, discernment
- Perception of that which is obscure.
- synonyms: discernment
- The quality of insight and sympathetic understanding. .
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