omnivorousness

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om·niv·o·rous

(ŏm-nĭv′ər-əs)

adj.

1. Eating food of any kind, including animals and plants.

2. Taking in everything available, as with the mind: an omnivorous reader.

[From Latin omnivorus : omni-, omni- + -vorus, -vorous.]

om·niv′o·rous·ly adv.

om·niv′o·rous·ness n.

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omnivorousness

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The quality or condition of being voracious:

avidity, edacity, rapaciousness, rapacity, ravenousness, voracity.

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