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Belacqua “received such a stunning crack on his eminent coccyx, that little known funny bone of amativeness, that he all but swooned for joy,” Beckett writes.

From New York Times • Jul. 3, 2014

Secondly, having settled it to be God's will that man should continue his species, we discovered an organ of amativeness, forthwith.

From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Poe, Edgar Allan

The perceptive organs, the knowing and reasoning faculties, executive ability  and the social organs of amativeness and friendship, particularly the latter, are all bright and particularly well developed.

From How to Become Rich A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony by Windsor, William

Moreover, the substance of human nature is so mixed that it would perhaps be fanatical to expect from Whitman's chivalry of "adhesiveness" a more immaculate purity than was attained by the medi�val chivalry of "amativeness."

From A Problem in Modern Ethics being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion, addressed especially to Medical Psychologists and Jurists by Symonds, John Addington

It must be amativeness which urges them to go and hear men preach.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady