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Appetite

Appetite (Latin appetitio – strong desire, aspiration to something) – pleasant emotional feeling which is connected with the forthcoming meal.

Allocate:

  • Appetite selective – extends to a certain type of food stuffs;
  • The appetite perverted (synonyms: pica, a parorexy, a pikatsizm) – extends to inedible substances.
 
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