Flavor vs. Variety — What's the Difference?

Flavor, or flavour, is the perceptual impression of food or other substances, and is determined primarily by the chemical senses of the gustatory and olfactory system. The "trigeminal senses", which detect chemical irritants in the mouth and throat, as well as temperature and texture, are also important to the overall gestalt of taste perception.

The quality or state of being different or diverse; the absence of uniformity or monotony

Distinctive taste; savor

A taxonomic category that ranks below subspecies (where present) or species, its members differing from others of the same subspecies or species in minor but permanent or heritable characteristics. Varieties are more often recognized in botany, in which they are designated in the style Apium graveolens (var. dulce).

A distinctive yet intangible quality felt to be characteristic of a given thing

The quality or condition of being various or varied; diversity

A flavoring

A number or collection of varied things, especially of a particular group; an assortment

Any of six types of quark (down, up, strange, charm, bottom, top), distinguished by generation, electric charge, and mass.

Something that is distinguished from others of the same kind by a specific characteristic or set of characteristics

Any of six types of lepton (electron, electron neutrino, muon, muon neutrino, tauon, tau neutrino), distinguished by generation, electric charge, and mass.

A form of a language that is used by a specific social group and differs from forms used by other social groups

(Archaic) Aroma; fragrance.

(Biology) A taxonomic subdivision of a species or subspecies consisting of a group of naturally occurring or selectively bred individuals that differ from other individuals of the species in certain minor characteristics.

To give flavor to.

A variety show.

The quality produced by the sensation of taste or, especially, of taste and smell in combined effect.

(countable)

A substance used to produce a taste. Flavoring.

A deviation or difference.

A variety (of taste) attributed to an object.

A specific variation of something.

The characteristic quality of something.

A collection or number of different things.

(informal) A kind or type.

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(particle physics) One of the six types of quarks (top, bottom, strange, charmed, up, and down) or three types of leptons (electron, muon, and tauon).

(uncountable)

(archaic) The quality produced by the sensation of smell; odour; fragrance.

The quality of being varied; diversity.

To add flavoring to something.

The kind of entertainment given in variety performances or shows; also, the production of, or performance in, variety performances or shows.

That quality of anything which affects the smell; odor; fragrances; as, the flavor of a rose.

The quality or state of being various; intermixture or succession of different things; diversity; multifariousness.

That quality of anything which affects the taste; that quality which gratifies the palate; relish; zest; savor; as, the flavor of food or drink.

That which is various.

That which imparts to anything a peculiar odor or taste, gratifying to the sense of smell, or the nicer perceptions of the palate; a substance which flavors.

A number or collection of different things; a varied assortment; as, a variety of cottons and silks.

That quality which gives character to any of the productions of literature or the fine arts.

Such entertainment as in given in variety shows; the production of, or performance in, variety shows.

To give flavor to; to add something (as salt or a spice) to, to give character or zest.

Something varying or differing from others of the same general kind; one of a number of things that are akin; a sort; as, varieties of wood, land, rocks, etc.

The general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people;

An individual, or group of individuals, of a species differing from the rest in some one or more of the characteristics typical of the species, and capable either of perpetuating itself for a period, or of being perpetuated by artificial means; hence, a subdivision, or peculiar form, of a species.

The taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth

In inorganic nature, one of those forms in which a species may occur, which differ in minor characteristics of structure, color, purity of composition, etc.

(physics) the kinds of quarks and antiquarks

A collection containing a variety of sorts of things;

Lend flavor to;

Noticeable heterogeneity;

(biology) a taxonomic category consisting of members of a species that differe from others of the same species in minor but heritable characteristics;

A show consisting of a series of short unrelated performances

A category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality;

A difference that is usually pleasant;