appetency

English

Noun

appetency (countable and uncountable, plural appetencies)

1. Strong desire; craving; powerful instinct.
   • 1856, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East, page 28:

     After the deperdition of Indagator, having an appetency still further to pervstigate the frithy occident; being still an agamist, and not wishing to be any longer a pedaneous viator, nor to be solivagant, I brought about the emption of a yaud, partly by numismatic mutuation, and partly by a hypothecation of my fusee and argental horologe.

Synonyms

• appetite
• compulsion
• craving

Translations

appetence — see appetence