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/əkwˈaɪərd teɪst/ Listen

Acquired taste

noun

A preference that is only acquired after considerable experience.

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"Acquired taste" Quotes from Famous Books

... with characteristic honesty he admitted the fact. He tried Paradise Lost ten times before he could get through with it, and was nearly thirty years old when he first succeeded in reading it to the end. Thereafter he became very fond of it, but plainly by an acquired taste. He tried smoking and Milton, he says, at the same time, in the hope of discovering the "recondite charm" in them which so pleased his father. He was more easily successful with the tobacco than with the poetry. Many another has had the like experience, ...

— John Quincy Adams - American Statesmen Series • John. T. Morse

... familiar with Italian, because it calls up in his mind, through the medium of its equivalent dolente, the same associations which the latter calls up in the mind of the Italian himself. [41] But this power of appreciating thoroughly the beauties of a foreign tongue is in the last degree an acquired taste,—as much so as the taste for olives and kirschenwasser to the carnal palate. It is only by long and profound study that we can thus temporarily vest ourselves, so to speak, with a French or Italian consciousness in exchange for our English one. The literary ...

— The Unseen World and Other Essays • John Fiske

Words linked to "Acquired taste" : penchant, preference, predilection, taste