The Collaborative International Dictionary
Appetition
Appetition \Ap`pe*ti"tion\, n. [L. appetitio: cf. F.
app['e]tition.]
Desire; a longing for, or seeking after, something.
--Holland.
Wiktionary
appetition
n. A desire, longing for, or seeking after of something.
Wikipedia
Appetition
Appetition, or appetite, is a longing for or seeking after something. It is one of the two aspects of desire, the other being volition.
Aristotle makes the distinction as follows:
Everything, too, is pleasant for which we have the desire within us, since desire is the craving for pleasure. Of the desires some are irrational, some associated with reason. By irrational I mean those which do not arise from any opinion held by the mind. Of this kind are those known as ‘natural’; for instance, those originating in the body, such as the desire for nourishment, namely hunger and thirst, and a separate kind of desire answering to each kind of nourishment; and the desires connected with taste and sex and sensations of touch in general; and those of smell, hearing, and vision. Rational desires are those which we are induced to have; there are many things we desire to see or get because we have been told of them and induced to believe them good.Usage examples of "appetition".
Beauty is a secondary: the more primal appetition, not patent to sense, our movement towards our good, gives witness that The Good is the earlier, the prior.