concupiscible appetite

== English == === Noun === concupiscible appetite (uncountable) (philosophy, psychology, Thomism) The emotional drive or capacity to pursue what is pleasurable and avoid what is painful; one of the two parts of the appetitive soul in Aristotelian and Thomistic psychology, the other being the irascible appetite. ==== Usage notes ==== In Aristotelian and Thomistic philosophy, the concupiscible appetite governs the basic passions of love, desire, joy, hatred, aversion, and sorrow. It is distinguished from the irascible appetite, which responds to difficulty and resistance rather than to pleasure and pain directly. ==== Antonyms ==== irascible appetite