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appetitively

appetitively adverb: in an appetitive manner.

Adverb

appetitively (comparative more appetitively, superlative most appetitively)

  1. In an appetitive manner.
    • One explanation for the different results obtained using the two procedures is that the motivation in the Morris water maze is avoidance of an aversive stimulus (water), whereas the radial arm maze is an appetitively motivated task.2007 December 4, Mark D. Spritzer, Mandeep Gill, Alex Weinberg, Liisa A. M. Galea, “Castration Differentially Affects Spatial Working and Reference Memory in Male Rats”, in Archives of Sexual...

Forms of appetitively

comparativemore appetitively
superlativemost appetitively

Origin of appetitively

From appetitive + -ly.

Questions about appetitively

What does appetitively mean?
Appetitively means in an appetitive manner.
What part of speech is appetitively?
Appetitively is an adverb.

Words near appetitively in the dictionary

  1. appetition
  2. appetitional
  3. appetitions
  4. appetitious
  5. appetitive
  6. appetitively
  7. appetitiveness
  8. appetitost
  9. appetize
  10. appetized
  11. appetizer

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