alimentiveness

Meaning

Noun

  • The state or quality of being alimentive.
  • The instinct or faculty of appetite for food.

Origin

  • 1828, George Combe, from a German term coined by Johann Spurzheim.
  • “Alimentiveness, a term first adopted by Spurzheim,”

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