amativeness

Tell us about amativeness, Madeleine," a male voice called out. "

He had a reputation as a womanizer and the back of the head was the amativeness center.

Amativeness, that is, love, and the nervous system, are in the most perfect mutual sympathy.

Amativeness is an inclination toward love, especially sexual love.

To titillate Amativeness, mainly, are novels written and read.

Secondly, having settled it to be God's will that man should continue his species, we discovered an organ of amativeness, forthwith.

Amativeness stands for the relating to or inclined toward love, especially sexual love; amorous.

Of course it awakens in her Amativeness.

Several doctors have found women with that style to have grossly enlarged organs of amativeness.

Amativeness is also a concept of phrenology.

In phrenology, the locus of amativeness is located on the lower back of the head, behind the ears.

Nobody could deny Lucy's Amativeness.

So all that remained for him to do was to demonstrate that Lucy's organ of Amativeness was extraordinarily well developed.

Whitman received a perfect score in nearly every one of Fowler's categories, which bore such fanciful names as "amativeness," "adhesiveness" and "combativeness."

Amativeness, Madeleine, amativeness.

As a matter of interest, this very organ of Amativeness was first brought to the attention of its discoverer, Professor Gall, when he noticed its unusual heat in a hysterical widow.

Now it happened that while his centre of amativeness was pronounced, it had lain mute and passive during the years he lived on moose and salmon and chased glowing Eldorados over chill divides.

Not only had she a history of past Amativeness (the fact that she was a "fallen woman" and so forth), but anyone who looked at her could see Amativeness written all over her.

"Leaves" went through eight more editions in Whitman's lifetime, eventually growing to more than 400 pages and encompassing 293 poems, including the ones about "amativeness," which got the author in so much trouble with the prigs and censors.

After a series of loud clanks, this visitor's $2 reading produced mixed results: very superior in friendship, combativeness, veneration and amativeness; average on agreeability, sympathy and suavity, but, alas, deficient in faith, ideality, time and tune.

John Cheever, who throughout his long career displayed a lovable penchant for words that might otherwise fail to secure even part-time employment (how many novelists today would straight-facedly try to sneak "amativeness" past their readers?), employed "puissant" a few times in his fiction.

Three phrenological articles by Herbert Spencer: "A New View of the Functions of Imitation and Benevolence", "On the Situation of the Organ of Amativeness", and "A Theory concerning the Organ of Wonder".

It is not a collage of thoughts, words or images, not a gently folded mass labeled, like the old phrenologists’ models, with calligraphed legends marking Amativeness, Concentrativeness, Wit, Weight, Tune, Language or Whatever Happened to the White Party Bowl.