| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fondness for sweets |
| Synonyms: | craving for sweets |
| Main Entry: | appetite |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | desire for food, worldly goods |
| Synonyms: | appetence, appetency, appetition, big eyes, craving, demand, fondness, gluttony, greed, hankering, hunger, inclination, itch, liking, longing, lust, passion, penchant, proclivity, propensity, ravenousness, relish, soft spot, stomach, sweet tooth, taste, thirst, urge, voracity, weakness, willingness, yearning, yen, zeal, zest |
| Antonyms: | antipathy, aversion, disgust, dislike, distaste, hatred, indifference, loathing, repulsion, revulsion |
| Main Entry: | fancy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | liking, dream |
| Synonyms: | big eyes, chimera, conception, daydream, delusion, envisagement, envisioning, eyes for, fabrication, fantasy, figment, fondness, hallucination, hankering, idea, illusion, imagination, imaginativeness, inclination, invention, itch, mirage, nightmare, notion, partiality, penchant, phantasm, picture, pie in the sky, pipe dream, predilection, preference, relish, reverie, romancing, sweet tooth, vision, yearning, yen |
| Antonyms: | certainty, fact, reality, truth |
| Main Entry: | hunger |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | appetite for food, other desire |
| Synonyms: | a stomach for, ache, appetence, appetency, appetition, big eyes, bottomless pit, craving, desire, emptiness, esurience, eyes for, famine, famishment, gluttony, greed, greediness, hungriness, longing, lust, mania, munchies, ravenousness, starvation, sweet tooth, vacancy, void, voracity, want, yearning, yen |
| Antonyms: | satiation, satisfaction |
| Main Entry: | propensity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inclination, weakness |
| Synonyms: | ability, aptness, bent*, bias, capacity, competence, disposition, flash, inclining, leaning, liability, partiality, penchant, predilection, predisposition, proclivity, proneness, susceptibility, sweet tooth, talent, tendency, thing*, tilt, yen |
| Notes: | a propensity is a tendency while a predilection is a partiality - thus, a propensity (from Latin meaning 'hanging toward') is a behavioral predisposition whereas a predilection is a personal characteristic (from Latin meaning 'choose or love before others') |
| Antonyms: | antipathy, disinclination, dislike, hate |
| Main Entry: | urge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | very strong desire |
| Synonyms: | appetite, appetition, compulsion, craving, drive, druthers, fancy, fire in belly, goad, impetus, impulse, incentive, itch, longing, lust, motive, passion, pressure, stimulant, stimulus, sweet tooth, weakness, wish, yearning, yen |
| Antonyms: | dislike, hate |
| Main Entry: | fancy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun, verb |
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Adjectives: |
air-built, air-drawn, bucolic, chimerical, chthonic, commentitious, creative, demiurgic, enthusiastic, excogitous, extravagant, fabulous, fairy, fairylike, fanatic, fanciful, fancy, fantastical, fertile, fictive, flighty, haptic, high-flown, ideal, illusory, imaginary, imaginative, imagined, imagining, implicit, in the clouds, inventive, legendary, mythic, mythological, notional, oneiric, oneirotic, original, pastoral, pretend, quixotic, romantic, supermundane, unreal, unsubstantial, utopian, visile, visionary, whimsical
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