Noun

• S: (n) astringency, astringence (a sharp astringent taste; the taste experience when a substance causes the mouth to pucker)
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) taste, taste sensation, gustatory sensation, taste perception, gustatory perception (the sensation that results when taste buds in the tongue and throat convey information about the chemical composition of a soluble stimulus) "the candy left him with a bad taste"; "the melon had a delicious taste"
• S: (n) sensation, esthesis, aesthesis, sense experience, sense impression, sense datum (an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation) "a sensation of touch"
• S: (n) perception (the process of perceiving)
• S: (n) basic cognitive process (cognitive processes involved in obtaining and storing knowledge)
• S: (n) process, cognitive process, mental process, operation, cognitive operation ((psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents) "the process of thinking"; "the cognitive operation of remembering"
• S: (n) cognition, knowledge, noesis (the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning)
• S: (n) psychological feature (a feature of the mental life of a living organism)
• S: (n) abstraction, abstract entity (a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples)
• S: (n) entity (that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving))
• derivationally related form
• S: (n) astringency, stypsis (the ability to contract or draw together soft body tissues to check blood flow or restrict secretion of fluids)