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appetitiveness

appetitiveness noun: the fact or quality of being appetitive.

Noun

appetitiveness (uncountable)

  1. The fact or quality of being appetitive.
    • Trilling is wonderful on Keats's appetitiveness and its connection to the maternal, but his essay has a psychological inconsistency approaching incoherence.1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae
    • To this extent, the appetitiveness of human sexuality is unlike the appetitiveness of hunger and thirst.2001, Irving Singer, Explorations in Love and Sex, page 7

Origin of appetitiveness

From appetitive + -ness.

Questions about appetitiveness

What does appetitiveness mean?
Appetitiveness means the fact or quality of being appetitive.
What part of speech is appetitiveness?
Appetitiveness is a noun.

Words near appetitiveness in the dictionary

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

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