appetency

[ ap-i-tuhn-see ]
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noun,plural ap·pe·ten·cies.

Origin of appetency

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1620–30; <Latin appetentia a craving for, equivalent to appetent- (stem of appetēns, present participle of appetere;see appetence) + -ia-ia; see -ency

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How to use appetency in a sentence

  • The former arise from those appetites and appetencies in respect of which all are equal.

    A Critical Examination of Socialism | William Hurrell Mallock
  • Never, by organizing into a social system a multitude of individual appetencies, can one produce a moral sense, a conscience.

    Parallel Paths | Thomas William Rolleston
  • It is the steady and prompt control of the outlooking sensibilities and appetencies, and inwardly moving desires.

  • And the pleasures attaching to them are more proper to the functions than are the appetencies themselves.

    Aristotle | George Grote