taste

/teɪst/ n [C/U] (JUDGMENT)

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› a person’s ability to judge and appreciate what is good and suitable, esp. in art, beauty, style, and behavior: [U] Barbara has good/poor taste in clothes. › Taste is also a person’s liking for or appreciation of something: [C] My son and I have very different tastes in music.

(Definition of taste n (JUDGMENT) from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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