#appetition

• Appetition — A tendency, drive, blind desire, or internal force through which an organism or consciousness tends toward the satisfaction of its needs or toward an external object. In Leibniz's philosophy, the concept designates the internal dynamism of the monad, meaning its constitutive tendency to pass from one perception to another.
• Appetition — An obsolete or literary lexicographical variant of the term 'apetiție' (appetition); an internal tendency, drive, blind desire, or dynamic force through which an organism or consciousness tends toward the satisfaction of its needs. It appears sporadically in 19th-century Romanian metaphysical and psychological translations.