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Appetite vs Prepossession - What's the difference?

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Appetite is a related term of prepossession.


As nouns the difference between appetite and prepossession

is that appetite is desire for, or relish of, food or drink; hunger while prepossession is preoccupation; having possession beforehand.

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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    prepossession

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Preoccupation; having possession beforehand.
  • A preconceived opinion, or previous impression; bias, prejudice.
  • * 1902 , William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience , Folio Society 2008, p. 386:
    • The spontaneous intellect of man always defines the divine which it feels in ways that harmonise with its temporary intellectual prepossessions .

    Quotations

    * 1791' : I am fully sensible to the greatness of that freedom, which I take with you on the present occasion; a liberty which seemed to me scarcely allowable, when I reflected on that distinguished and dignified station in which you stand, and the almost general prejudice and ' prepossession , which is so prevalent in the world against those of my complexion. - Letter from , August 19, 1791

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