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Definition of Appetitive
1. Adjective. Of or relating to appetite. "Appetitive needs"
Definition of Appetitive
1. a. Having the quality of desiring gratification; as, appetitive power or faculty.
Definition of Appetitive
1. Adjective. Having the quality of desiring gratification. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Appetitive
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Appetitive
Literary usage of Appetitive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. On the Functions of the Brain and of Each of Its Parts: With Observations on by Franz Josef Gall (1835)
"Of the Moral Qualities, the appetitive Faculty, the Appetites, Propensities ...
The appetitive faculty, and its subdivisions, have been considered as proper ..."
2. Aristotle by George Grote (1872)
"... of the rational or calculating soul (\o- 7«rm-o5), we must also affirm as
proprium of temperance that it is the excellence of the appetitive soul 17. ..."
3. Psychology by Michael Maher (1890)
"... which emphasizes the idea of effort prominent in some of these acts; whilst
others prefer the title appetitive faculty. These two last names seem to us ..."
4. Ethics, General and Special by Owen Aloysius Hill (1920)
"Morality's obstacles, ignorance and error affect the intellect; the passions,
notably fear, affect the will; violence affects executive not appetitive ..."
5. Aquinas Ethicus: Or, The Moral Teaching of St. Thomas. A Translation of the by Thomas, Joseph Rickaby (1896)
"7s humility concerned, with the appetitive faculty ? R. It belongs properly to
humility that a man should repress himself, and not reach out to what is ..."
6. Synthetica: Being Meditations Epistemological and Ontological by Simon Somerville Laurie (1906)
"... of Harmony (a) In the appetitive Sphere : (b) In the Emotional Sphere : Validity
of moral distinctions—Ethical fulfilment—Ethical History. Introduction. ..."
7. The Works of Orestes A. Brownson by Orestes Augustus Brownson, Henry Francis Brownson (1884)
"... and sue for grace to one we hate, and hence it is the will can be appetitive
of evil without changing its nature, which is to be appetitive of good. ..."
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