2011_11_24 appetence \AP-i-tuhns\, noun: Intense desire; strong natural craving; appetite.

appetence \AP-i-tuhns\, noun:
1. Intense desire; strong natural craving; appetite.
2. Instinctive inclination or natural tendency.
3. Material or chemical attraction or affinity.
A sudden step and desire to reach back in time to change the circumstances, to re-write and re-route all those ferocious columns, an appetence to change what had been done and said.
 -- Charles D. Ellison, Tantrum
How immense is their thirst for life! A youthful nation in its entirety, a new mankind, inspired with an eager appetence for knowledge and truth.
 -- Stefan Zweig and Laurence Mintz, Balzac, Dickens, Dostoevsky: Master Builders of the Spirit
Appetence, from the same root as appetite, comes from the Latin appete meaning “to seek for or long for.”