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: ap-pe-tence. The stress falls on "ap".

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.