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Voracity

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vo·ra·cious  (vô-rshs, v-)
adj.
1. Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
2. Having or marked by an insatiable appetite for an activity or pursuit; greedy: a voracious reader.
[From Latin vorx, vorc-, from vorre, to swallow, devour.]
vo·racious·ly adv.
vo·raci·ty (-rs-t), vo·racious·ness (-rshs-ns) n.
Synonyms: voracious, gluttonous, rapacious, ravenous
These adjectives mean having or marked by boundless greed: a voracious reader of history; a gluttonous consumer of fine foods; a rapacious acquirer of competing businesses; a politician ravenous for power.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.Voracityvoracity - excessive desire to eat
edacity, esurience, ravenousness, voraciousness
hunger, hungriness - a physiological need for food; the consequence of food deprivation
2.Voracityvoracity - extreme gluttony
rapaciousness, rapacity, voraciousness, edacity, esurience
gluttony - habitual eating to excess


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Here they passed the remainder of the day, cooking and eating with a voracity proportioned to previous starvation, forgetting in the hearty revel of the moment the certain dangers with which they were environed.
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A., in the Rocky Mountains and the far West by Irving, Washington View in context
In their voracity the vermin frequently fastened their sharp fangs in my fingers.
The Pit and the Pendulum by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context
I will not go into other particulars, as for example want of shirts, and no superabundance of shoes, thin and threadbare garments, and gorging themselves to surfeit in their voracity when good luck has treated them to a banquet of some sort.
Don Quixote by Cervantes, Miguel View in context
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