consummatory behavior

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noun Ethology.

a behavior pattern that occurs in response to a stimulus and that achieves the satisfaction of a specific drive, as the eating of captured prey by a hungry predator (distinguished from appetitive behavior).

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Origin of consummatory behavior

First recorded in 1905–10

Words nearby consummatory behavior

consumer strike, consumer terrorism, consuming, consummate, consummation, consummatory behavior, consummatory behaviour, consumption, consumption coagulopathy, consumption goods, consumption tax

How to use consummatory behavior in a sentence

Anger often manifests in withholders as another self-destructive but more socially acceptable feeling or behavior, like anxiety.
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The team tracked individuals from afar to get a sense of their behavior.
Mongooses, Meerkats, and Ants, Oh My! Why Some Animals Keep Mating All in the Family|Helen Thompson|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But it looks like it was created by crazed person with obsessive-compulsive behavior.
Red Tape Is Strangling Good Samaritans|Philip K. Howard|December 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
They seem to belong to us, and then they freely go—behavior very uncharacteristic of a shadow or a shoe.
Owning Up to Possession’s Downside|Samantha Harvey|December 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST

The idea is to reveal human nature and behavior with your camera moves.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days|David Freeman|December 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Moreover, most of the burrows were only a few feet apart and no agonistic behavior was witnessed.
Summer Birds From the Yucatan Peninsula|Erwin E. Klaas
He had been very silent all the morning, but Bessie's heart was so full that she had taken little notice of his behavior.
The value of a praying mother|Isabel C. Byrum
They still hold my wife and children as hostages for my good behavior.
Portrait and Biography of Parson Brownlow, The Tennessee Patriot|William Gannaway Brownlow
This word struck the tutor, who saw there was some mystery in this behavior, and he looked at the speaker with admiration.
Balsamo, The Magician|Alexander Dumas
He came the next day; I felt that my behavior must have seemed strange, and I excused it on the ground of my affection for Daphne.
Chicot the Jester|Alexandre Dumas, Pere