foretaste means A taste beforehand. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 82 out of 100.
Why “foretaste” is a great word
FORETASTE — [Noun] A small, preliminary experience or sample of something to come. From Middle English fortaste, equivalent to fore- ("before") + taste (noun); first recorded in use c. 1400–50. Unlike "prospect," which suggests a speculative view lacking immediacy, or "preview," which implies a formal and complete showing, a foretaste is an involuntary, sensory seizure by the future. It is the scent of petrichor before the storm breaks, the single perfect chord struck in an orchestra’s final tuning, or the chill that ghosts across your skin in the last full minute of sunlight—a fragile, potent oracle, making the not-yet acutely and terribly real.
noun
- A taste beforehand.
- A sample taken in anticipation; an experience undergone in advance.“When she sang in the kirk, folk have told me that they had a foretaste of the musick of the New Jerusalem, and when she came in by the village of Caulds old men stottered to their doors to look at her.”
verb
- To taste beforehand.
- To taste before possession; have previous experience of; enjoy by anticipation.
- To taste before another.“[...] foretast'd fruit, Profan'd first by the serpent [...]”