Darwin's statement of the exertions and desires of animals at all similar to Lamarck's, who could not have borrowed his ideas on appetency from Darwin or any other predecessor.
The doctrine of appetency attributed to Lamarck is without foundation.
If the word veut has suggested the doctrine of appetency in meaning has been pushed too far by the critics of Lamarck.
Here he yields nothing, as he owes nothing, to that appetency which binds him to the natural world.
It is that sense of life-preserving and life-enhancing appetencywhich is the conscious accompaniment of struggle.
According to panpsychism, then, physical nature is the manifestation of an appetency or bare consciousness generalized from the thinker's awareness of his most intimate self.
Such appetency or bare consciousness is the essential or substantial state of that which appears as physical nature.
The sentiment is here declared even more strongly respecting the appetency of all animals--brutes as well as men.
He says that taedium vitae as in the case of Hamlet is due to 'unchecked appetency of the ideal.
Money, from its appetency to make its possessor swagger.
Small clothes, from the appetency of their contents, to the exercise of kicking, and from being the kick--the fashion.
The same occurs to the nipples of the breasts of female animals, when they are distended with blood, they acquire the newappetency of giving milk.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "appetency" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
