appetency

Example Sentences

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For her attitude, perhaps you will agree, towards her object, is not simply one of perception, but one of appetency and enjoyment.

From The Meaning of Good—A Dialogue by Dickinson, G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes)

He says that tædium vitæ as in the case of Hamlet is due to ‘unchecked appetency of the ideal.’

From More Pages from a Journal by Rutherford, Mark

It was something like having a sixth sense bestowed on him—this new appetency for all manner of things towards which until now he had only felt a vague indifference.

From Shadows of Flames A Novel by Rives, Amélie

Such appetency or bare consciousness is the essential or substantial state of that which appears as physical nature.

From The Approach to Philosophy by Perry, Ralph Barton

This at first suggests an appetency for another language like the dog-Latin gibberish of children.

From Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by Hall, G. Stanley