amativeness

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Belacqua “received such a stunning crack on his eminent coccyx, that little known funny bone of amativeness, that he all but swooned for joy,” Beckett writes.

From New York Times • Jul. 3, 2014

The perceptive organs, the knowing and reasoning faculties, executive ability  and the social organs of amativeness and friendship, particularly the latter, are all bright and particularly well developed.

From How to Become Rich A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony by Windsor, William

In thoroughbred Ainu I found the bumps of amativeness, philoprogenitiveness, and tune very well developed.

From Alone with the Hairy Ainu or, 3,800 miles on a pack saddle in Yezo and a cruise to the Kurile Islands. by Landor, A. H. Savage

Brother Dickinson: As to the talk of amativeness, what about our holiness meetings and seaside meetings, where we go to hear woman, and to be moved by her words and her personality?

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

There may be some doubt whether the function called amativeness is located in the cerebellum at all; at least, it is perfectly certain that amativeness is not the exclusive function of the cerebellum.

From Plain Facts for Old and Young by Kellogg, John Harvey