inappetency
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a variation of
inappetence.
inappetencenounlack of appetite.
Example Sentences
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No discrimination was observed; the robust young man, with an iron constitution, was, so far as related to food, placed on a par with the poor invalid, debilitated with protracted suffering or dying of inappetency.
From Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale by John Sherburne Sleeper
Her virtues lay in no resistant force of character, but in a natural inappetency for evil things, which to her were as unmeaning as joints of flesh to a herbivorous creature.
From A Group of Noble Dames by Thomas Hardy
Your inappetency, without doubt, is only owing to the aversion you have to a discovery.
From The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01 by Anonymous
Sometimes the stomach is torpid along with the pained membrane of the head; and then sickness and inappetency attends either as a cause or consequence.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin