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Alimentiveness

Alˊi-men′tive-ness

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Noun.
The instinct or faculty of appetite for food.
[Chiefly in Phrenol.]

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alimentiveness

alimentiveness

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

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.”