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appetencies

appetencies is the plural of appetency.

Meaning of appetency

Noun

appetency (countable and uncountable, plural appetencies)

  1. Strong desire; craving; powerful instinct.
    • After the deperdition of Indagator, having an appetency still further to pervstigate the frithy occident; being still an agamist, and not wishing to be any longer a pedaneous viator, nor to be solivagant, I brought about the emption of a yaud, partly by numismatic mutuation, and partly by a...1856, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East, page 28

Questions about appetencies

What is appetencies the plural of?
Appetencies is the plural of appetency.

Words near appetencies in the dictionary

  1. appestats
  2. appeteaser
  3. appeteasers
  4. appetence
  5. appetences
  6. appetencies
  7. appetency
  8. appetent
  9. appetently
  10. appetetive
  11. appetibility

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