voracity

Noun

Meaning

The quality of being voracious; voraciousness.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

maw ardor gluttony desire enthusiasm devotion hunger excitement greed lust appetite thirst longing craving indulgence
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Antonyms

temperance loathing detestation hate hostility hatred
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Hypernyms

gluttony hunger

Examples

It is asserted that the dogs keep running when they drink at the Nile, for fear of becoming a prey to the voracity of the crocodile. Pliny the Elder

Poetry is: a classifying, a botanizing, a voracity of contemplation, a pleasure, an indulgence, an infatuation in which the actual is a deft benficence. Marianne Moore

Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites. George Bernard Shaw

Close letter words and terms

voracious voraciously voraciousness voraginous vorago vorant