Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of exciting appetite or desire; attractiveness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being desirable.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The quality of being
desirable .
Etymologies
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Compare French appétibilité.
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Examples
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Yet, if appetibility does not constitute goodness, still it is our only means of identifying it; in practice, the good is the desirable.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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The causality of the final cause is to be referred to its appetibility.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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It tends primarily "to a concrete object which is useful or pleasurable", not to "the reason itself of its appetibility".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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