PALATABILITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does palatability mean? 

• PALATABILITY (noun)
  The noun PALATABILITY has 2 senses:

1. the property of being acceptable to the mouth

2. acceptability to the mind or feelings

  Familiarity information: PALATABILITY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PALATABILITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The property of being acceptable to the mouth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

palatability; palatableness

Hypernyms ("palatability" is a kind of...):

taste property (a property appreciated via the sense of taste)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "palatability"):

tastiness (a pleasing palatability)

appetisingness; appetizingness (the property of stimulating the appetite)

Antonym:

unpalatability (the property of being unacceptable to the mouth)

Derivation:

palatable (acceptable to the taste or mind)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Acceptability to the mind or feelings

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

palatability; palatableness

Context example:

the pursuit of electoral palatability

Hypernyms ("palatability" is a kind of...):

acceptability; acceptableness (satisfactoriness by virtue of conforming to approved standards)

 Context examples 

Therapeutically inactive natural or synthetic ingredient(s) of pharmaceutical dosage form used to improve drug palatability.

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