The quality or state of being capable of desire or of being desirable; the nature of being subject to appetitive impulses.
From concupiscible + -ness (English suffix forming nouns from adjectives). This rare nominalization represents an attempt to discuss the abstract concept of desirability or the human capacity for craving as a philosophical principle.
This word is so delightfully obscure that it barely exists in English—only the most dedicated medieval philosophers tried to nominalize concupiscible, creating a word for 'the quality of being able to desire things,' which tells you everything about how abstract Scholastic thinking became.
Quality/state of being prone to desire; institutionalizes concupiscible as essence rather than capacity, with implicit feminine coding in theological anthropology.
Avoid. Use 'capacity for appetite' or 'human sensibility' instead.
["capacity for appetite","human sensibility","embodied nature"]
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