Definitions
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- noun the property of stimulating the appetite
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Examples
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People are more likely to buy a cookbook for its ease, its appetizingness, its novelty, or its personal charm than its type of cuisine.
Archive 2009-11-01 Editorial Anonymous 2009
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People are more likely to buy a cookbook for its ease, its appetizingness, its novelty, or its personal charm than its type of cuisine.
No Excuses Editorial Anonymous 2009
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A too restricted diet, lacking both in variety and appetizingness, had had its usual result of upsetting digestion and destroying desire for food.
Fat and Blood An Essay on the Treatment of Certain Forms of Neurasthenia and Hysteria John K. [Editor] Mitchell 1871
vanishedone commented on the word appetizingness
WeirdNet defines this word and also employs it in its definition of deliciousness, but none of the other dictionary.reference.com sources lists it, and neither does the O.E.D....
May 13, 2009
seanahan commented on the word appetizingness
I guess I could see how I might accidentally lead myself down the garden path and end up saying this word, but I would feel dirty about it and probably pretend I used it sarcastically.
May 15, 2009