taste, appreciation, discernment, perceptiveness

delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values); "arrogance and lack of taste contributed to his rapid success"; "to ask at that particular time was the ultimate in bad taste"

• virtu, vertu, connoisseurship — love of or taste for fine objects of art
• vogue, trend, style — the popular taste at a given time
• delicacy, discretion — refined taste; tact
• culture — the tastes in art and manners that are favored by a social group

• discrimination, secernment — the cognitive process whereby two or more stimuli are distinguished

• tasteful, in good taste(p) — having or showing or conforming to good taste
• tasteless, in poor taste(p) — lacking aesthetic or social taste