appetitiveness

English

Etymology

From appetitive +‎ -ness.

Noun

appetitiveness (uncountable)

1. The fact or quality of being appetitive.
   • 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:

     Trilling is wonderful on Keats's appetitiveness and its connection to the maternal, but his essay has a psychological inconsistency approaching incoherence.

   • 2001, Irving Singer, Explorations in Love and Sex, page 7:

     To this extent, the appetitiveness of human sexuality is unlike the appetitiveness of hunger and thirst.