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Voracity   /vərˈæsəti/  /vɔrˈæsəti/   Listen
Voracity

noun
1.
Excessive desire to eat.  Synonyms: edacity, esurience, ravenousness, voraciousness.
2.
Extreme gluttony.  Synonyms: edacity, esurience, rapaciousness, rapacity, voraciousness.






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"Voracity" Quotes from Famous Books



... extending rapidly, and is, I believe, destined to assume much greater proportions. The literature of the world is at the present time literally being devoured by Young Japan. I do not regard this literary voracity as the mere outcome of curiosity, or as in any way symptomatic of mere mental unrest. Young Japan appears, like Lord Bacon, to take all knowledge for its field of study, and in accord with the philosophical principles of that great man, the principles of ...
— The Empire of the East • H. B. Montgomery



Words linked to "Voracity" :   voracious, hungriness, gluttony, hunger



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