THESAURUS
appetite
Cyrenaic hedonism, Cyrenaicism, alacrity, an universal wolf, animation, animus, anxiety, anxiousness, appetence, appetency, appetition, appetitiveness, avidity, avidness, bent, bias, breathless impatience, canine
appetite, cannibalism, carnivorism, carnivority, carnivorousness, cheerful readiness, chewing, choice, command, conation, conatus, consumption, coveting, craving, cropping, cupidity, decision, deglutition, demand, desire, determination, devouring, devourment, dieting, dining, discretion, disposition, drought, dryness, eagerness, eating, edacity, elan, emptiness, empty stomach, enthusiasm, epicureanism, epicurism, epulation, ethical hedonism, fancy, feasting, feeding, flair, fondness, forwardness, free choice, free will, gluttony, gobbling, gourmandise, grazing, greed, gust, gusto, hankering, hedonic calculus, hedonics, hedonism, herbivorism, herbivority, herbivorousness, hollow hunger, hunger, hungriness, impatience, inclination, ingestion, intention, itch, itching, keen desire, keenness, leaning, licking, life, liking, liveliness, longing, love, lust, luxuriousness, luxury, manducation, mania, mastication, messing, mind, munching, nibbling, nutrition, objective, omnivorism, omnivorousness, omophagy, pantophagy, passion, pasture, pasturing, pecking, penchant, pleasure, pleasure principle, pleasure-seeking, polydipsia, predilection, preference, proclivity, promptness, propensity, prurience, pruriency, psychological hedonism, quickness, readiness, regalement, relish, relishing, resolution, rumination, savoring, sensualism, sensuality, sensualness, sexual desire, soft spot, spirit, stomach, sweet tooth, sybaritism, tapeworm, taste, tasting, tendency, thirst, thirstiness, torment of Tantalus, unchastity, urge, urgency, vegetarianism, velleity, verve, vitality, vivacity, volition, voluptuousness, voracity, weakness, will, will power, wish, wolfing, yearning, zeal, zest, zestfulness
ROGET THESAURUS
appetite
Desire
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desire, wish, fancy, fantasy, want, need, exigency, mind, inclination, leaning, bent, animus, partiality, penchant, predilection, propensity, willingness, liking, love, fondness, relish, longing, hankering, inkling, solicitude, anxiety, yearning, coveting, aspiration, ambition, vaulting ambition, eagerness, zeal, ardor, empressement, breathless impatience, overanxiety, impetuosity,
appetite, appetition, appetence, appetency, sharp
appetite, keenness, hunger, stomach, twist, thirst, thirstiness, drouth, mouthwatering, itch, itching, prurience, cacoethes, cupidity, lust, concupiscence, edge of
appetite, edge of hunger, torment of Tantalus, sweet tooth, lickerish tooth, itching palm, longing eye, wistful eye, sheep's eye, greed, voracity, passion, rage, furore, mania, manie, inextinguishable desire, dipsomania, kleptomania, lover, amateur, votary, devotee, aspirant, solicitant, candidate, applicant, supplicant, cormorant, desideratum, want, a consummation devoutly to be wished, attraction, magnet, allurement, fancy, temptation, seduction, fascination, prestige, height of one's ambition, idol, whim, whimsy, whimsey, maggot, hobby, hobby-horse, Fortunatus's cap, wishing cap, wishing stone, wishing well, desirous, desiring, inclined, partial to, fain, wishful, optative, anxious, wistful, curious, at a loss for, sedulous, solicitous, craving, hungry, sharp-set, peckish, ravening, with an empty stomach, esurient, lickerish, thirsty, athirst, parched with thirst, pinched with hunger, famished, dry, drouthy, hungry as a hunter, hungry as a hawk, hungry as a horse, hungry as a church mouse, hungry as a bear, greedy, unsatisfied, unsated, unslaked, unsaturated, eager, avid, keen, burning, fervent, ardent, agog, all agog, breathless, impatient, bent on, intent on, set on, bent upon, intent upon, set upon, mad after, enrage, rabid, dying for, devoured by desire, aspiring, ambitious, vaulting, skyaspiring, high-reaching, desirable, desired, in demand, pleasing, appetizing, appetible, tantalizing, wistfully, fain, Int, would that, would that it were!, O for!, esto perpetual, the wish being father to the thought, sua cuique voluptas, hoc erat in votis, the mouth watering, the fingers itching, aut Caesar aut nullus, Cassius has a lean and hungry look, hungry as the grave, I was born to other things, not what we wish but what we want, such joy ambition finds, the sea hath bounds but deep desire hath none, ubi mel ibi apes.