concupiscible appetite

noun

The emotional drive or capacity to pursue what is pleasurable and avoid what is painful; one of the two parts of the appetitive soul in Aristotelian and Thomistic psychology, the other being the irascible appetite.

Opposite
irascible appetite
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Meanings

nounconcupiscible appetite (uncountable)
  1. uncountablehuman sciencesThe emotional drive or capacity to pursue what is pleasurable and avoid what is painful; one of the two parts of the appetitive soul in Aristotelian and Thomistic psychology, the other being the irascible appetite.

Synonyms & antonyms

Opposite
irascible appetite
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