appetitiveness
English edit
Etymology edit
From appetitive + -ness.
Noun edit
appetitiveness (uncountable)
- The fact or quality of being appetitive.
- 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
- Trilling is wonderful on Keats's appetitiveness and its connection to the maternal, but his essay has a psychological inconsistency approaching incoherence.
- 2001, Irving Singer, Explorations in Love and Sex, page 7:
- To this extent, the appetitiveness of human sexuality is unlike the appetitiveness of hunger and thirst.