English

Noun

alimentiveness ‎(uncountable)

1. The state or quality of being alimentive.
2. (phrenology, obsolete) The instinct or faculty of appetite for food.

Usage notes

In phrenology, a scientific (Latinate) term for vice of gluttony or for gastronomy.^[3]

Coordinate terms

• bibativeness

References

1. ↑ George Combe, Elements of Phrenology, 1828, p. 214
2. ↑ The Lancet, Volume 2, 1836, p. 689
   “Alimentiveness, a term first adopted by Spurzheim,”
3. ↑ The Lancet, Volume 2, 1836, p. 689
   In other words, to what was once called “gluttony,” but which is now dignified by the name “gastronomy.”