Definitions for appetitive

appetitive ap·pe·ti·tive

Spelling: [ap-i-tahy-tiv]
IPA: /ˈæp ɪˌtaɪ tɪv/

Appetitive is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 166 anagrams from letters in appetitive (aeeiippttv).

Definitions for appetitive

adjective

  1. pertaining to appetite.

Origin of appetitive

First recorded in 1570-80; appetite + -ive

Examples for appetitive

Every one of the three souls (the rational, the spirited and the appetitive) must be given its due.

The mean of the appetitive power is temperance; of the spirited power, bravery and gentleness; of the rational soul, justice.

We also find the Platonic division into appetitive, spirited and rational.

He has the spirited power and the appetitive like other animals.

The faculty of the vegetative soul is the appetitive power, whose seat is in the liver.

Prayer, then, is desire; but desire is an act of the appetitive powers.

The rational soul is like a king; the animal soul is like an official before the king, rebuking the appetitive soul.

The first movement of will and of any appetitive faculty (virtus) is amor.

The appetitive faculty is the power of the soul by which a person desires a thing or rejects it.

Similarly if this fool abstains from pleasures, it is because of the weakness of his appetitive soul.

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