bibativeness

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. penchant for drinking, love of liquids (not necessarily alcoholic), thirst. obsolete,uncountable
    — Just in front of Alimentiveness, is one or more organs which create a love of drinking, bathing, sailing, &c., which might be called Aquativeness, or Bibativeness, or Thirst, as thought best.

词源

Coined circa 1843, by Orson Squire Fowler, as variant of earlier aquativeness (1843), by analogy with earlier alimentiveness (1828). From Latin bibō (“I drink”) + -ative (“related to”) + -ness (“the quality of”); compare Latin bibāx (“tending to drink”).
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