Voracity

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Voracity \Vo*rac"i*ty\, n. [L. voracitas: cf. F. voracit['e].]
     The quality of being voracious; voraciousness.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  voracity
       n 1: excessive desire to eat [syn: {edacity}, {esurience}, {ravenousness},
             {voraciousness}]
       2: extreme gluttony [syn: {edacity}, {esurience}, {rapaciousness},
           {rapacity}, {voraciousness}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  43 Moby Thesaurus words for "voracity":
     acquisitiveness, avarice, avariciousness, avidity, avidness,
     covetousness, crapulence, crapulency, cupidity, edacity,
     frenzy of desire, fury of desire, gluttonousness, gluttony,
     grasping, graspingness, greed, greediness, gulosity, hoggishness,
     hyperphagia, incontinence, inordinate desire, insatiability,
     insatiable desire, intemperance, intemperateness, itching palm,
     lust, omnivorousness, overeating, overgreediness, overindulgence,
     piggishness, polyphagia, rapaciousness, rapacity, ravenousness,
     sordidness, swinish gluttony, swinishness, voraciousness,
     wolfishness