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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

appetitiveness en · NOUN

Etymology

From appetitive + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (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: