Appetite vs Food - What's the difference?
appetite | food |
Desire for, or relish of, food or drink; hunger.
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
, chapter=5, title= Any strong desire; an eagerness or longing.
* (Jeremy Taylor) (1613–1677)
* (1800-1859)
The desire for some personal gratification, either of the body or of the mind.
* (Richard Hooker) (1554-1600)
A taste, preference.
(uncountable) Any substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life.
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
, chapter=1
Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]”}}* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=72-3, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (countable) A foodstuff.
(uncountable, figuratively) Anything that nourishes or sustains.
* (and other bibiographic particulars) (William Shakespeare)
* (and other bibiographic particulars) (William Wordsworth)
As nouns the difference between appetite and food
is that appetite is desire for, or relish of, food or drink; hunger while food is (uncountable) any substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life.appetite
English
(Webster 1913)Noun
(en noun)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.}}
- If God had given to eagles an appetite to swim.
- To gratify the vulgar appetite for the marvelous.
- 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.
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, passionDerived terms
() * appetitive * appetizer * appetizing * appetizinglyExternal links
* * * ----food
English
Noun
(en-noun)citation, passage=“[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like
Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]”}}
A punch in the gut, passage=Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.}}
- Mozart and Bach are food for my soul.
- This may prove food to my displeasure.
- In this moment there is life and food / For future years.