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Hungriness   Listen
Hungriness

noun
1.
A physiological need for food; the consequence of food deprivation.  Synonym: hunger.
2.
Prolonged unfulfilled desire or need.  Synonyms: longing, yearning.
3.
Strong desire for something (not food or drink).  Synonyms: hunger, thirst, thirstiness.  "Hunger for affection"





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"Hungriness" Quotes from Famous Books



... dulled to a matter-of-fact hungriness, she trotted beside him to a restaurant, one of the string of Vance eating-places, a food-mill which tried to achieve originality by the use of imitation rafters, a plate-rack aligned with landscape plates, and varnished black tables for ...
— The Job - An American Novel • Sinclair Lewis


Words linked to "Hungriness" :   wishfulness, discontentedness, discontentment, edacity, drive, discontent, famishment, ravenousness, desire, voraciousness, starvation, wistfulness, undernourishment, hungry, voracity, malnourishment, emptiness, nostalgia, pining, hankering, yen, bulimia, esurience


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