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n. - The arousal of feelings of sexual desire.

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Usage examples (24)
  • "That's it," said Mrs. Gubbins; "they call it number one, sometimes; I suppose amativeness is Latin for number one.
  • How should she know that his indifference was often a victory over himself, as his amativeness was a defeat?
  • There may be some doubt whether the function called amativeness is located in the cerebellum at all; at least, it is perfectly certain that amativeness is not the...
  • The passion of amativeness is probably, on the whole, the most powerful of all human impulses.
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