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

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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

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Example Sentences

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appetency appetencies

If the word veut has suggested the doctrine of appetency in meaning has been pushed too far by the critics of Lamarck.

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

This at first suggests an appetency for another language like the dog-Latin gibberish of children.

From Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by G. Stanley Hall

Here he yields nothing, as he owes nothing, to that appetency which binds him to the natural world.

From The Approach to Philosophy by Ralph Barton Perry

The coarse fare became viands of rare appetency.

From Si Klegg, Book 5 (of 6) The Deacon's Adventures At Chattanooga In Caring For The Boys by John McElroy

Was the appetency of the ideal strong in Hamlet? 

From More Pages from a Journal by Mark Rutherford

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

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

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