appetence

Questions about appetence

What does appetence mean?

appetence means "a feeling of craving something".

How many syllables are in appetence?

appetence has 3 syllables and divides as ap-pe-tence under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for appetence?

Close synonyms include appetite, appetency. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is appetence a common word?

appetence is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.