literary taste
Bookish aesthetic sense
Literary taste is a person's preferences in reading—what kinds of books, styles, or authors they enjoy or value.
The phrase often implies cultivated judgment rather than mere preference: someone with good literary taste appreciates quality writing, while questionable literary taste suggests fondness for lowbrow or trashy fare.
Her literary taste runs to nineteenth-century novels.
- discernmentKeen perception and judgment
- refinedPurified or cultured
- cultivatedImproved through nurture
- high cultureSociety's esteemed artistic traditions
- bookishDevoted to reading
highbrow · lowbrow · low culture · palate · sensibility · preference · aesthetic · judgement · appreciation · book club · reading list · canon · classic · pulp · genre · sophistication · middlebrow · voracious
- culturebeliefs, food preferences, custom, festivals, art galleries
- Literary Tastegenre fiction, canonical works
- tastebitter, salty, sour, sweet, spicy
- Arabic poetrydiwan, classical verse, classical forms, Adonis
literary tastephilistinism
Contempt for cultural refinement
vulgarity · crudeness · boorishness · tastelessness · poor taste
literary, taste, literature, literate, literacy, illiterate, illiteracy, literati, literal