ravenousness
51voracity — 1520s, from M.Fr. voracité (14c.) or directly from L. voracitatem (nom. voracitas) greediness, ravenousness, from vorax (gen. voracis) greedy, from vorare to devour, from PIE root *gwer to swallow, devour (Cf. Skt. girati he swallows, garah …
52voraciousness — vo ra·cious·ness || vÉ™ reɪʃəsnɪs n. ardent enthusiasm for a certain activity; ravenousness …
53voracity — n. ardent enthusiasm for a certain activity; ravenousness …
54ravenous — adjective voraciously hungry. Derivatives ravenously adverb ravenousness noun Origin ME: from OFr. ravineus, from raviner (see raven2) …
55avidity — n. 1. Eagerness, longing, yearning, intense desire. 2. Greediness, craving, voracity, voraciousness, rapacity, ravenousness, canine appetite …
56greediness — n. 1. Voracity, ravenousness, gluttony, excessive hunger. 2. Eagerness, longing, greed, avidity, intense desire. 3. Grasping, graspingness, avarice, rapacity, selfishness …
57voracity — n. Ravenousness, greediness, voraciousness, gluttonous appetite …
58appetite — noun 1) a walk sharpens the appetite Syn: hunger, ravenousness, hungriness; taste, palate 2) my appetite for learning Syn: craving, longing, yearning, hankering, hunger, thirst, pass …
59hunger — noun 1) she was faint with hunger Syn: lack of food, hungriness, ravenousness, emptiness; starvation, malnutrition, famine, malnourishment, undernourishment 2) a hunger for news Syn: desire, craving …
60greed — *cupidity, rapacity, avarice Analogous words: greediness, covetousness, avariciousness, acquisitiveness (see corresponding adjectives at COVETOUS): voraciousness, ravenousness, rapaciousness, gluttonousness or gluttony (see corresponding… …
