alimentiveness

English

Etymology

1828, George Combe,[1] from a German [Term?] term coined by Johann Spurzheim.[2]

Noun

alimentiveness (uncountable)

  1. The state or quality of being alimentive.
  2. (phrenology, obsolete) The instinct or faculty of appetite for food.

Usage notes

In phrenology, a scientific (Latinate) term for vice of gluttony or for gastronomy.[3]

Coordinate terms

References
  1. George Combe, Elements of Phrenology, 1828, p. 214
  2. The Lancet, Volume 2, 1836, p. 689
    “Alimentiveness, a term first adopted by Spurzheim,”
  3. The Lancet, Volume 2, 1836, p. 689
    In other words, to what was once called “gluttony,” but which is now dignified by the name “gastronomy.”
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