appetitiveness

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From appetitive +‎ -ness.

Noun[edit]

appetitiveness (uncountable)

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