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APPETITION

Definition: APPETITION

APPETITION

Noun

1. Desire; a longing for, or seeking after, something.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "APPETITION" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1714. (references)


Synonyms within Context: APPETITION

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Desire

Appetite, appetition, appetence, appetency; sharp appetite, keenness, hunger, stomach, twist; thirst, thirstiness; drouth, mouthwatering; itch, itching; prurience, cacoethes, cupidity, lust, concupiscence.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Translation: APPETITION

Language Translations for "APPETITION"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Ukrainian

  

жага (appetence, appetency, appetite), прагнення (affectation, ambition, anxiety, appetency, aspiration, aspiring, craving, desire, gravitation, hanker, hunger, libido, need, nisus, objective), порив (dash, ecstasy, gush, gust, waff). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "APPETITION"

Words rhyming with "APPETITION" (pronounced 'Ap`pe*ti"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references)

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Anagrams: APPETITION

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-i-i-n-o-p-p-t-t"

-2 letters: antipope, petition.

-3 letters: antipot, appoint, epinaoi, patient.

-4 letters: nappie, notate, opiate, pantie, patent, patine, patten, pattie, petnap, pineta, pinite, pointe, potent, potpie, tappet, teapot, teopan, tiepin, tippet, tiptoe, tiptop, titian.

-5 letters: atone, entia, inapt, inept, nappe, netop, oaten, opine, paeon, paint, panto, paten, patin, patio, petit, petti, petto, piano, pieta, pinot, pinta, pinto, pipet.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-i-i-n-o-p-p-t-t"
 

+3 letters: precipitation.

 

+4 letters: disappointment, pithecanthropi, precipitations.

 

+5 letters: disappointments, interpopulation, plenipotentiary, preimplantation.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: APPETITION


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 50 50 45 54 49 54 49 4F 4E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    .--.    .--.    .    -    ..    -    ..    ---    -.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01010000 01010000 01000101 01010100 01001001 01010100 01001001 01001111 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#80 &#80 &#69 &#84 &#73 &#84 &#73 &#79 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0050 0050 0045 0054 0049 0054 0049 004F 004E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

35505039544354434948

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Non-English Dictionaries with "APPETITION"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Ukrainian

словник, довідник, чіткість, тлумачення, виразність, визначення, дефініція, ясність, чітка чутність, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщенняукраїнський, українець

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationанглійський, англійці, англійська мова
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Rhymes
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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