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Appetite vs Hankering - What's the difference?

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Appetite is a related term of hankering.


As nouns the difference between appetite and hankering

is that appetite is desire for, or relish of, food or drink; hunger while hankering is (often|followed by for or after) a strong, restless desire, longing, or mental inclination.

As a verb hankering is

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appetite

English

(Webster 1913)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Desire for, or relish of, food or drink; hunger.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
    • , chapter=5, title= A Cuckoo in the Nest , passage=The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite . There is something humiliating about it.}}
  • Any strong desire; an eagerness or longing.
  • * (Jeremy Taylor) (1613–1677)
    • If God had given to eagles an appetite to swim.
  • * (1800-1859)
    • To gratify the vulgar appetite for the marvelous.
  • The desire for some personal gratification, either of the body or of the mind.
  • * (Richard Hooker) (1554-1600)
    • The object of appetite is whatsoever sensible good may be wished for; the object of will is that good which reason does lead us to seek.
  • A taste, preference.

    • Quotations

    * 1904 , (Arthur Conan Doyle) in (The Adventure of Black Peter) *: And I return with an excellent appetite . There can be no question, my dear Watson, of the value of exercise before breakfast. But I am prepared to bet that you will not guess the form that my exercise has taken.

    Synonyms

    (checksyns) * craving, longing, desire, appetency, passion

    Derived terms

    () * appetitive * appetizer * appetizing * appetizingly

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    hankering

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • * 2008 May 23, James Graff, " Lost: Labour's Love for Brown," Time :
    • [T]here is a clear sense that Britain is hankering for a change at the top.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (often, followed by for or after) A strong, restless desire, longing, or mental inclination.
  • * 1840 , , The Knight of Malta :
    • I found that he had dipped a little in chimerical studies and had a hankering after astrology and alchymy.
  • * 1849 , , Shirley , ch. 1:
    • Mike says he even likes to talk to him and run after him, but he has a hankering that Moore should be made an example of.
  • * 1861 , , Framley Parsonage , ch. 4:
    • One may say that hankering after naughty things is the very essence of the evil into which we have been precipitated by Adam's fall.
  • * 1904 , , Dialstone Lane . ch. 2:
    • "Some people are fond of a stay-at-home life, but I always had a hankering after adventures."
  • * 2010 Aug. 12, Michael D. Lemonick, " Study: Lucy's Relatives Used Tools to Butcher Meat," Time :
    • In other words, some species of human ancestor . . . not only had a hankering for meat, which scientists had not expected, but used tools to get it.

    Synonyms

    * craving

    Anagrams

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