The term appetence or appetency applies not only to organic needs, but also in a general manner to.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize] Reference

Is it just the appetence of an Omar Khayyam, the leer of an Abu Nuwas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes From The Geek Show] Reference

Luiz Cane (9-1) will be making his third appetence in the Octagon and is also coming off his first win in the UFC.    From Wordnik.com.  [UFC 89: Bisping vs. Leben] Reference

There was no thief on the course who did not wait, in hungry appetence, the sportsman's descent from the stand; yet the novice outstripped them all.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of Scoundrels] Reference

"The Behold of the Eye," Flashjack's laternal grandsister (adopted), Pebbleskip had told him, "is where the humans store the imagos of their appetence — which is to say, all the things they prize most highly, having had their breath taken away by the glimmering glamour of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-08-01] Reference

In short, appetence for.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion] Reference

Worthy to feel that appetence of fame.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and Smollett With Memoirs, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes] Reference