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Definition of Cravings
1. craving [n] - See also: craving
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cravings
Literary usage of Cravings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Psychoanalysis and Love by André Tridon (1922)
"Or is it an alloy of higher qualities, biological necessity and egotistical
neurotic cravings? I do not intend to settle all those problems within the ..."
2. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1893)
"Bodily cravings. These are forms of appetency in which the object is sensation
localized bodily. When the character of appetency (which may be one of the ..."
3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1891)
"... a day for weeks and months at a time, without any apparent injurious influence.
PSYCHOLOGICAL. JWB DISEASED cravings AND PARALYZED CONTROL. ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Inclinations (ie desire and aversion) decrease; desires frequently change into
needs of, or unconscious cravings after, experiences which formerly were ..."
5. Practical dietetics: With Special Reference to Diet in Disease by William Gilman Thompson (1902)
"ABNORMAL cravings Instances of abnormal cravings for food are familiar to every
one. They sometimes take the form merely of an inordinate desire for food ..."
6. Psychopathology by Edward John Kempf (1920)
"The oral cravings are clearly explained in the phrase: "If I had it I would bite
it off," and the swallowing of hair-balls, sticks, pins, screws, ..."
7. The Law of the Office and Duties of the Sheriff: With the Writs and Forms by Alexander Carmichael Bruce, Cameron Churchill (1879)
"The costs incurred by the sheriff in summoning jurors by post may be included in
his ordinary bill of cravings, and should be allowed, within proper limits, ..."
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