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English
Etymology
Coined early 1843 (January or February) by Spencer Timothy Hall.[1] From Latin aqua (“water”) + -ative (“related to”) + -ness (“the quality of”).
Noun
aquativeness (uncountable)
- (phrenology, obsolete, obscure) love of liquids, including drinking, bathing, and sailing.
1843, Orson Squire Fowler, Phrenology and physiology explained and applied to education, page 193:1843, The American Phrenological Journal and Miscellany, Volume 5, p. 193:
Just in front of Alimentiveness, is one or more organs which create a love of drinking, bathing, sailing, &c., which might be called Aquativeness, or Bibativeness, or Thirst, as thought best.
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References
- ^ The Phrenological Journal, and Magazine of Moral Science, Volume 16, 1843, “Lectures on Mesmero-Phrenology”, p. 203:
“Among Mr Hall’s new organs are those of Velocity, Aquativeness, Riding, Walking, Climbing, Descending, Excavativeness, and so on!”