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VORACITY

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• VORACITY (noun)
The noun VORACITY has 2 senses:

1. excessive desire to eat
2. extreme gluttony

Familiarity information: VORACITY used as a noun is rare.

• VORACITY (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Excessive desire to eat

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

edacity; esurience; ravenousness; voraciousness; voracity

Hypernyms ("voracity" is a kind of...):

hunger; hungriness (a physiological need for food; the consequence of food deprivation)

Sense 2

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Meaning:

Extreme gluttony

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

rapaciousness; rapacity; edacity; voracity; voraciousness; esurience

Hypernyms ("voracity" is a kind of...):

gluttony (habitual eating to excess)

"Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes straight to the bone."
(English proverb)
"He who does not work, must not eat."
(Bulgarian proverb)
"Those who are far from the eye are far from the heart."
(Arabic proverb)
"Money sticks to another money."
(Croatian proverb)

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