[f. as prec. + -NESS.] The quality or state of being tasty.
1802. Manby, Guide from Clifton, etc., 136–7. The western entrance particularly claimed my attention, by the rich display of beautiful gothic, in all the tastiness of its construction.
1864. Louisa M. Alcott, Moods, v. 88. The old lady let them do what they would, admiring everything, and declaring over and over again that her new assistants ‘beat her boys and girls to nothin’ with their tastiness and smartness.’
1881. Howells, in Longm. Mag., I. 44. Lexington has escaped the ravages alike of ‘tastiness’ and of enterprise.
1902. Mary E. Mann, Fields Dulditch, iii. 39. He ain’t to comparison in tastiness to th’ gage.
