? Obs. [f. L. appetībil-is desirable: see next and -ITY. Cf. Fr. appétibilité.] The quality of being desirable; desirableness, attractiveness.
1604. T. Wright, Passions of Mind, V. iv. 257. Goodnes … is the perfection or appetibilitie of every thing reall or apparant.
1656. Hobbes, Liberty, etc. (1841), 309. To resist both the appetibility of objects, and the unruliness of passions.
1824. Baretti, It. Dict., Appetibility, qualità che rende desiderevole.
