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View synonyms for appetence

appetence

[ ap-i-tuhns ]

noun

  1. intense desire; strong natural craving; appetite.
  2. instinctive inclination or natural tendency.
  3. material or chemical attraction or affinity.


appetence

/ ˈæpɪtəns /

noun

  1. a natural craving or desire
  2. a natural or instinctive inclination
  3. an attraction or affinity
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Word History and Origins

Origin of appetence1

1600–10; appete (obsolete) to seek for, long for (< Latin appetere, equivalent to ap- ap- 1 + petere to seek) + -ence; or < French appétence
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Word History and Origins

Origin of appetence1

C17: from Latin appetentia, from appetere to crave
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Example Sentences

Possibilities were beckoning to him, dead things springing up alive, old longings, ambitions, appetences plucking at him.

Remove ignorance and you will destroy the wrong appetences that rise from ignorance; destroy these appetences and you will wipe out the wrong perception that rises from them.

Thus we may perceive that the triunit consisting of perception, appetence, and motion, constitutes the celebrated irritability of our author.

My ideal woman is not one who is good for nothing, "bred only and polished to the taste of lustful appetence; to sing, to dance, to dress, to troll the tongue and roll the eye."

"Bred only and completed to the taste Of lustful appetence, to sing, to dance, To dress and troll the tongue and roll the eye"?

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