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appetency

appetency noun: strong desire; craving; powerful instinct.

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

Synonyms of appetency

Forms of appetency

pluralappetencies

Questions about appetency

What does appetency mean?
Appetency means strong desire; craving; powerful instinct.
What part of speech is appetency?
Appetency is a noun.
What is the plural of appetency?
The plural of appetency is appetencies.

Words near appetency in the dictionary

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

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