the worthless word for the day is: orexis

[Gk orexis, desire] /aw REK sis/
Psych. : the aspect of mental activity concerned
with emotion and desire rather than cognition;
appetite, desire

"..whose Sprachgefühl and orexis will find more than
fugacious fulfillment among its felicific pages."
- Laurence Urdang, Misunderstood, Misused,
Mispronounced Words (Foreword, 1972)

"Aristotle coined the Greek noun orexis from.. orego,
which means "to reach out." Orexis is the soul's
"reaching out" for something in the world.
- Larry Arnhart, Darwinian Natural Right (1998)

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