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
nounThe quality or condition of being voracious:
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