Definition of Amativeness

1. Noun. The arousal of feelings of sexual desire.


Definition of Amativeness

1. n. The faculty supposed to influence sexual desire; propensity to love.

Definition of Amativeness

1. Noun. (context: phrenology) The state or quality of being amative; propensity to love or sexual feelings. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Amativeness

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Medical Definition of Amativeness

1. The faculty supposed to influence sexual desire; propensity to love. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Amativeness

amateur radio
amateurish
amateurishly
amateurishness
amateurism
amateurisms
amateurs
amateurship
amateurships
amathophobia
amating
amation
amations
amative
amatively
amativenesses
amatol
amatols
amatorial
amatorially
amatorian
amatorily
amatorious
amatoxin
amatoxins
amatuer
amatungulu
amature

Literary usage of Amativeness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Chapters on Human Love by Walter Matthew Gallichan (1898)
"amativeness. Description of the faculty—Its potentiality for good or ill—Physiological ... amativeness has therefore a somewhat varying connotation. ..."

2. Heads and Faces, and how to Study Them: A Manual of Phrenology and by Nelson Sizer, Henry Shipman Drayton (1885)
"A loving face end head. may be on amativeness plainly, and then their continued harmonious relations are likely to be doubtful. People who are attracted by ..."

3. Cranio-muscular Origins of Brain and Mind by Philip Henry Erbés (1904)
"Carnality in the 1 Oc. C. amativeness in the 2 Oc. C. Carnality in the 1 Oc. C. amativeness in the 2 Oc. C. The emotional areas at the base of the brain ..."

4. Jacques Bonhomme, John Bull on the Continent, From My Letter-box by Max O'Rell (1901)
"THERE 1S probably no being in whom the bump of amativeness is more developed than it is in the Frenchman. The poor fellow must love; he cannot help it. ..."

5. A System of phrenology by George Combe (1860)
"There are men thus organized who have a particular affection for children, and in whom the organs of amativeness and Adhesiveness are small—who bear the ..."

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