appetitiveness en · NOUN
Etymology
From appetitive + -ness.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The fact or quality of being appetitive.
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: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: