Meaning & use

sapidity

noun·Academic

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The quality of having a pleasing or distinctive flavor; palatability.

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The chef praised the sapidity of the freshly harvested tomatoes.

Long storage had robbed the apples of much of their sapidity.

A note on using this word

"Sapidity" shares its root with "sapid" (flavorful) and "insipid" (its opposite), both tracing back to Latin "sapere," to taste.

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Words with an opposite meaning

insipidityblandness

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