appetitiveness

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noun

The fact or quality of being appetitive.

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Meanings

nounappetitiveness (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe fact or quality of being appetitive.

    To this extent, the appetitiveness of human sexuality is unlike the appetitiveness of hunger and thirst.

    2001, Irving Singer, Explorations in Love and Sex, page 7
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    Trilling is wonderful on Keats's appetitiveness and its connection to the maternal, but his essay has a psychological inconsistency approaching incoherence.

    1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae

Origin

From appetitive + -ness.

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APA

appetitiveness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/appetitiveness

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“appetitiveness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/appetitiveness. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “appetitiveness,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/appetitiveness.

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