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Webster 1913 Edition


Amativeness

Am′a-tive-ness

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Noun.
(Phren.)
The faculty supposed to influence sexual desire; propensity to love.
Combe.

Definition 2024


amativeness

amativeness

English

Noun

amativeness (uncountable)

  1. (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.

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