appetency noun. ['apɪt(ǝ)nsi] E17.
[Latin appetentia longing after, from appetere: see APPETITE, -ENCY.]
1. Natural tendency, affinity; instinctive inclination or propensity. arch. E17.

2. The state or action of desiring; passion; an appetite, a craving. (Foll. by after, for, of.) M17.
■ I. D'Israeli Fanaticism and robbery..will satiate their appetency for blood and plunder.
■ D. Masson An appetency after literary distinction.
■ M. Innes The magical and irrational appetencies which make up nine-tenths of the content of the human mind.

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