appetence

[ ap-i-tuhns ]

noun

1. intense desire; strong natural craving; appetite.
2. instinctive inclination or natural tendency.
3. material or chemical attraction or affinity.

appetence

/ ˈæpɪtəns /

noun

1. a natural craving or desire
2. a natural or instinctive inclination
3. an attraction or affinity

Other Words From

• appe·tent adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of appetence¹

1600–10; appete (obsolete) to seek for, long for (< Latin appetere, equivalent to ap- ap- ¹ + petere to seek) + -ence; or < French appétence

Word History and Origins

Origin of appetence¹

C17: from Latin appetentia, from appetere to crave

Example Sentences

Possibilities were beckoning to him, dead things springing up alive, old longings, ambitions, appetences plucking at him.

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Remove ignorance and you will destroy the wrong appetences that rise from ignorance; destroy these appetences and you will wipe out the wrong perception that rises from them.

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Thus we may perceive that the triunit consisting of perception, appetence, and motion, constitutes the celebrated irritability of our author.

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My ideal woman is not one who is good for nothing, "bred only and polished to the taste of lustful appetence; to sing, to dance, to dress, to troll the tongue and roll the eye."

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"Bred only and completed to the taste Of lustful appetence, to sing, to dance, To dress and troll the tongue and roll the eye"?

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