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alimentiveness|ælɪˈmɛntɪvnɪs|
[f. adj. alimentive (not cited) + -ness. Cf. the more analogical alimentative, and mod.Fr. alimentivité.]
The instinct which impels an animal to seek food, to which some have assigned a special ‘organ’ in the brain.
1825Combe Syst. Phrenol. (ed. 5) I. 280 Dr. Hoppe considers that the organ of Alimentiveness is likewise the organ of the sense of taste. 1845Vestig. Creat. (ed. 3) 327 The alimentiveness of such animals as the dog..can be pampered or educated up to a kind of epicurism. |