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Amativeness

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am·a·tive  (m-tv)
adj.
Relating to or inclined toward love, especially sexual love; amorous.
[Medieval Latin amtvus, capable of love, from amtus, past participle of Latin amre, to love.]
ama·tive·ly adv.
ama·tive·ness n.
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Noun1.amativeness - the arousal of feelings of sexual desire
sexiness, amorousness, eroticism, erotism
concupiscence, physical attraction, sexual desire, eros - a desire for sexual intimacy
carnality, lasciviousness, lubricity, prurience, pruriency - feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness


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His imagination invested her with the taste for the fine arts which ho required from a wife, and he married her in her first season, only to discover that the amativeness in her temperament was so little and languid that she made all his attempts at fondness ridiculous, and robbed the caresses for which he had longed of all their anticipated ecstasy.
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