English Explanatory Dictionary

alimentiveness

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The state or quality of being alimentive.
  2. The instinct or faculty of appetite for food.

Word forms

alimentiveness

Etymology

1828, George Combe, from a German [Term?] term coined by Johann Spurzheim.

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