Definition of Cravings

1. Noun. (plural of craving) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cravings

1. craving [n] - See also: craving

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cravings

craven
cravened
cravening
cravenly
cravenness
cravennesses
cravens
craver
cravers
craves
cravest
craveth
craving
cravingly
cravingness
cravings (current term)
craw
craw-craw
crawdad
crawdaddies
crawdaddy
crawdads
crawfish
crawfish out
crawfished
crawfishes
crawfishing
crawfordite
crawk
crawked

Literary usage of Cravings

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Psychoanalysis and Love by André Tridon (1922)
"Or is it an alloy of higher qualities, biological necessity and egotistical neurotic cravings? I do not intend to settle all those problems within the ..."

2. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1893)
"Bodily cravings. These are forms of appetency in which the object is sensation localized bodily. When the character of appetency (which may be one of the ..."

3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1891)
"... a day for weeks and months at a time, without any apparent injurious influence. PSYCHOLOGICAL. JWB DISEASED cravings AND PARALYZED CONTROL. ..."

4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Inclinations (ie desire and aversion) decrease; desires frequently change into needs of, or unconscious cravings after, experiences which formerly were ..."

5. Practical dietetics: With Special Reference to Diet in Disease by William Gilman Thompson (1902)
"ABNORMAL cravings Instances of abnormal cravings for food are familiar to every one. They sometimes take the form merely of an inordinate desire for food ..."

6. Psychopathology by Edward John Kempf (1920)
"The oral cravings are clearly explained in the phrase: "If I had it I would bite it off," and the swallowing of hair-balls, sticks, pins, screws, ..."

7. The Law of the Office and Duties of the Sheriff: With the Writs and Forms by Alexander Carmichael Bruce, Cameron Churchill (1879)
"The costs incurred by the sheriff in summoning jurors by post may be included in his ordinary bill of cravings, and should be allowed, within proper limits, ..."

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