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concupiscible appetite

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
con-cu-pis-ci-ble ap-petite
IPA
35
Scrabble Score
21
Letters
6
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The emotional drive or capacity to pursue what is pleasurable and avoid what is painful; one of the two parts of the appetitive soul in Aristotelian and Thomistic psychology, the other being the irascible appetite.

Uncountable

Usage

Antonyms

irascible appetite

Questions

What does concupiscible appetite mean?
The emotional drive or capacity to pursue what is pleasurable and avoid what is painful; one of the two parts of the appetitive soul in Aristotelian and Thomistic psychology, the other being the irascible appetite.

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