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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In medicine, a defect or loss of taste, occurring in colds and fevers, or arising from nervous disease.

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  • noun Alternative spelling of ageusia.

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  • Loss or impairment of the sense of taste (also ageusia)

    Begs for figurative use!

    July 9, 2008

  • JM wonders if absence makes the ageustia no longer.

    March 12, 2010