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

There is such a thing in the human mind as unrealized truth, both intellectual and spiritual; the inarticulate muttering of an obscurely felt sentiment; a vague appetency for something we are not distinctly conscious of.

From The Eclipse of Faith Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic by Rogers, Henry

The doctrine of appetency attributed to Lamarck is without foundation.

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

This was not altogether the case with Browning, who, despite an unquenchable appetency for drama, did better work in his dramatic monologues than in his plays.

From Robert Browning by Herford, C. H. (Charles Harold)

Such appetency or bare consciousness is the essential or substantial state of that which appears as physical nature.

From The Approach to Philosophy by Perry, Ralph Barton

It was something like having a sixth sense bestowed on him—this new appetency for all manner of things towards which until now he had only felt a vague indifference.

From Shadows of Flames A Novel by Rives, Amélie

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 Darwin, Erasmus

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 Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.)