- (n.) Fixed and strong desire; especially natural desire; a craving; an eager appetite.
- (n.) Natural tendency; affinity; attraction; -- used of inanimate objects.
- (n.) Specifically: An instinctive inclination or propensity in animals to perform certain actions, as in the young to suck, in aquatic fowls to enter into water and to swim; the tendency of an organized body to seek what satisfies the wants of its organism.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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