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appetitiveness

noun

appetitiveness

noun

Etymology From appetitive + -ness.

1

The fact or quality of being appetitive.

  • Trilling is wonderful on Keats's appetitiveness and its connection to the maternal, but his essay has a psychological inconsistency approaching incoherence.1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
  • To this extent, the appetitiveness of human sexuality is unlike the appetitiveness of hunger and thirst.2001, Irving Singer, Explorations in Love and Sex, page 7:

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