amativeness

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Belacqua “received such a stunning crack on his eminent coccyx, that little known funny bone of amativeness, that he all but swooned for joy,” Beckett writes.

From New York Times • Jul. 3, 2014

The perceptive organs, the knowing and reasoning faculties, executive ability  and the social organs of amativeness and friendship, particularly the latter, are all bright and particularly well developed.

From How to Become Rich A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony by Windsor, William

It must be amativeness which urges them to go and hear men preach.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

There may be some doubt whether the function called amativeness is located in the cerebellum at all; at least, it is perfectly certain that amativeness is not the exclusive function of the cerebellum.

From Plain Facts for Old and Young by Kellogg, John Harvey

Secondly, having settled it to be God's will that man should continue his species, we discovered an organ of amativeness, forthwith.

From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Poe, Edgar Allan