alimentiveness

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

1828, George Combe,[1] from a German [Term?] term coined by Johann Spurzheim.[2]

Noun[edit]

alimentiveness (uncountable)

  1. The state or quality of being alimentive.
  2. (phrenology, obsolete) The instinct or faculty of appetite for food.

Usage notes[edit]

In phrenology, a scientific (Latinate) term for vice of gluttony or for gastronomy.[3]

Coordinate terms[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ George Combe, Elements of Phrenology, 1828, p. 214
  2. ^ The Lancet, Volume 2, 1836, p. 689
    “Alimentiveness, a term first adopted by Spurzheim,”
  3. ^ The Lancet, Volume 2, 1836, p. 689
    In other words, to what was once called “gluttony,” but which is now dignified by the name “gastronomy.”
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