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Noun: voraciousness  vu'rey-shus-nus
  1. Excessive desire to eat
    "After fasting for days, he attacked his meal with voraciousness";
    - edacity, esurience, ravenousness, voracity
     
  2. Extreme gluttony
    "Her voraciousness for knowledge led her to read everything she could find";
    - edacity, esurience, rapaciousness, rapacity, voracity
     
  3. An excessive desire for wealth (usually in large amounts)
    "the voraciousness of lawyers";
    - greediness, rapaciousness

Sounds like: voracious, verausness, veracio

Type of: gluttony, hunger, hungriness, selfishness