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appetite

noun
/ˈæp.ɪ.taɪt/UK/ˈæp.əˌtaɪt/US

Etymology

From Middle English appetit, from Old French apetit (French appétit), from Latin appetitus, from appetere (“to strive after, long for”); ad + petere (“to seek”). See petition, and compare with appetence.

  1. derived from appetitus
  2. derived from apetit
  3. inherited from appetit

Definitions

  1. A desire to eat food or consume drinks.

    • And I return with an excellent appetite. There can be no question, my dear Watson, of the value of exercise before breakfast.
    • The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. There is something humiliating about it.

  2. Any strong desire

    Any strong desire; an eagerness or longing.

    • If God had given to eagles an appetite to swim.
    • To gratify the vulgar appetite for the marvellous.

  3. The desire for some personal gratification, either of the body or of the mind.

    • appetite for reading
    • The object of appetite is whatsoever sensible good may be wished for; the object of will is that good which reason does lead us to seek.

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Derived

appetite comes with eating, appetited, appetiteless, appetitive, appetizer, appetizing, appetizingly, risk appetite, sexual appetite, whet someone's appetite

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at appetite. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at appetite. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at appetite

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA