irascible appetite
The emotional drive or capacity to overcome difficulties, fight against obstacles, or…The emotional drive or capacity to overcome difficulties, fight against obstacles, or resist threats; one of the two parts of the appetitive soul in Aristotelian and Thomistic psychology, the other being the concupiscible appetite.
Meaning
1 senses(uncountable)The emotional drive or capacity to overcome difficulties, fight against obstacles, or resist threats; one of the two parts of the appetitive soul in Aristotelian and Thomistic psychology, the other being the concupiscible appetite.
Antonyms
1 antonymsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
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