appetency

American  

[ap-i-tuhn-see] / ˈæp ɪ tən si /

noun

• appetencies
  plural

1. appetence.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• appetencies
  plural

Etymology

Origin of appetency

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

Example Sentences

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appetency appetencies

A long cigarette holder between her thin lips, one putty-colored lisle stocking showing to the knee, she exhaled, together with an odor of Florentine orris-root, a ruthless vigor and appetency for pleasure.

From Sacrifice by Stephen French Whitman

These lacteal? ?ave mouths, and by animal selection or appetency the absorb such part of the fluid as is agreeable to their palate.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster

The doctrine of appetency attributed to Lamarck is without foundation.

From Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work by A. S. (Alpheus Spring) Packard

A longing; a desire; especially an ardent desire; appetite; appetency.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster

Was the appetency of the ideal strong in Hamlet? 

From More Pages from a Journal by Mark Rutherford

In this early formation of the embryon from the irritabilities, sensibilities, and associabilities, and consequent appetencies, the faculty of volition can scarcely be supposed to have had its birth.

From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin

The instincts of men, the appetencies which they possess in common with the whole animal creation, are each made the source of disease, and premature decay.

From Wild Northern Scenes Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod by S. H. (Samuel H.) Hammond