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Webster 1913 Edition
Amativeness
Am′a-tive-ness
,Noun.
(Phren.)
The faculty supposed to influence sexual desire; propensity to love.
Combe.
Definition 2025
amativeness
amativeness
English
Noun
amativeness (uncountable)
- (phrenology) The state or quality of being amative; propensity to love or sexual feelings.
- 2012, Catherine Peters, ‘Court in the Act’, Literary Review, issue 399:
- Combe felt her bumps and pronounced that she had an unusually large cerebellum, the seat of Amativeness.
- 2012, Catherine Peters, ‘Court in the Act’, Literary Review, issue 399:
Translations
propensity to love
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