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n. - Acceptability to the mind or feelings; The property of being acceptable to the mouth.

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Usage examples (11)
  • Adjective : palatable food. ,palatable ideas
  • -- The addition of a cream sauce to cooked hominy not only adds to the palatableness of this cereal, but increases its food value.
  • Whole-wheat rolls have the same advantage as bread made of whole-wheat flour, and if they are well baked they have a crust that adds to their palatableness.
  • Their sweetness is like the sweetness of bread, and to have discovered this palatableness in this neglected nut, the whole world is to me the sweeter for it.
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