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Appetence

//ˈæp.ɪ.təns// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The state or action of desiring or craving. countable, uncountable

    "[T]hat fair femal Troop […] / Bred onely and completed to the taſte / Of luſtful appetence, to ſing, to dance, / To dreſs, and troule the Tongue, and roule the Eye."

  2. 2
    a feeling of craving something wordnet

Etymology

Circa 1600, from French appétence, from Latin appetentia, from appetere (“to seek after”). Doublet of appetite.

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