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Gustfulness vs Gustful - What's the difference?

gustfulness | gustful | Derived terms |

Gustfulness is a derived term of gustful.


In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between gustfulness and gustful

is that gustfulness is (obsolete) appealing taste; tastiness while gustful is (obsolete) tasty; good-tasting.

As a noun gustfulness

is (obsolete) appealing taste; tastiness.

As an adjective gustful is

gusty.

gustfulness

English

Noun

(-)
  • (obsolete) Appealing taste; tastiness.
  • * Barrow
    • Then his food doth taste savourily, then his divertisements and recreations have a lively gustfulness .
  • * Thomas Harmer
    • It was not any gustfulness in those herbs which they eat, which caused them to gather them, or the force of long-established habit, but the extremity of want.

    gustful

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • gusty
  • * Tennyson
    • A gustful April morn.
  • (obsolete) tasty; good-tasting
  • * Sir K. Digby
    • The said season being passed, there is no danger or difficulty to keep it [preserved meat] gustful all the year long.

    Derived terms

    * gustfulness (Webster 1913)