appetitive
Relating to hunger
Appetitive describes what relates to appetite or desire, especially natural drives toward food, sex, or other basic satisfactions.
The word appears in psychology and philosophy to distinguish instinctual urges from aversive responses: appetitive behavior in rats, the appetitive system.
Something appetitive draws you toward it rather than pushing you away.
Powerful urge to have
- yearningIntense prolonged craving
- longingIntense, persistent desire
- desireIntense wanting
- wantingAbsent or insufficient
coveting · lust · hunger · thirst · itch · urge · eagerness · avidity
Need for nourishment
- satietyState of being full
- fastingDeliberate food avoidance
- gastricOf the stomach
- pangsSudden sharp sensations
ravenous · famished · voracious · peckish · nourishment · feeding · consumption · digestion
First in origin
- innateExisting since birth
- biologicalRelating to living organisms
- visceralArising from deep instinct
- animalisticResembling brute nature
hardwired · inborn · instinctive · reflexive · unconscious · automatic · natural · genetic
craving
Powerful urge to have
wanting · coveting · lust · hunger · thirst · itch · urge · eagerness · avidity · pining
hunger
Need for nourishment
pangs · ravenous · famished · voracious · peckish · nourishment · feeding · consumption · digestion · metabolic
primal
First in origin
- innateExisting since birth
- biologicalRelating to living organisms
- visceralArising from deep instinct
animalistic · hardwired · inborn · instinctive · reflexive · unconscious · automatic · natural · genetic · unlearned