aquativeness

English edit

Coined early 1843 (January or February) by Spencer Timothy Hall.^[1] From Latin aqua (“water”) + -ative (“related to”) +‎ -ness (“the quality of”).

aquativeness (uncountable)

(phrenology, obsolete, obscure) love of liquids, including drinking, bathing, and sailing.
- 1843, Orson Squire Fowler, Phrenology and physiology explained and applied to education‎^[1], page 193:
  1843, The American Phrenological Journal and Miscellany, Volume 5, p. 193:
  Just in front of Alimentiveness, is one or more organs which create a love of drinking, bathing, sailing, &c., which might be called Aquativeness, or Bibativeness, or Thirst, as thought best.

^ The Phrenological Journal, and Magazine of Moral Science, Volume 16, 1843, “Lectures on Mesmero-Phrenology”, p. 203:
“Among Mr Hall’s new organs are those of Velocity, Aquativeness, Riding, Walking, Climbing, Descending, Excavativeness, and so on!”