appetencyn.
/ˈapɪtənsi/ 1. strictly, The state of longing for, desiring, craving; appetite, passion. But also used as = appetence n. Const. of, for, after.
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the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > [noun]
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1656 R. Sanderson 20 Serm. 19 God hath ingrafted in our nature,..an appetency of praise and glory.
1660 E. Sparke Θυσιαστηριον (ed. 2) 538 Vicious Concupiscence, and all brutish Appetencies.
1807 I. D'Israeli Curiosities of Lit. 1st Ser. (ed. 5) II. 429 Fanaticism and robbery..will satiate their appetency for blood and plunder.
1881 Masson in Macmillan's Mag. 45 74 An appetency after literary distinction.
2. Instinctive inclination or propensity.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > tendency > [noun]
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the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > [noun] > desire excluding thought
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1802 W. Paley Nat. Theol. ix. 156 That the parts of animals may have been all formed by what is called appetency, i.e. endeavour, perpetuated, and imperceptibly working its effect, through an incalculable series of generations.
1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1828) III. xxxii. 348 There is no formative appetency in the animals themselves.
3. Of things inanimate: Natural tendency, affinity.
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1640 G. Watts tr. F. Bacon Of Advancem. Learning iii. iv. 147 Who ever shall..intentively observe the appetencies of Matter.
1831 D. Brewster Life I. Newton xi. 162 The spherical form of the planets had been ascribed by Copernicus to the gravity or natural appetency of their parts.
1846 W. Wittich Curiosities Physical Geogr. II. 190 The extraordinary appetency for oxygen of several of these bases.
4. metaphorical. Suggested term including both desire and volition, as distinguished from cognition and feeling.
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a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1859) I. xi. 186 The term appetency..comprehending..both desires and volitions.
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