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Noun: voracity  vu'ra-su-tee
  1. Excessive desire to eat
    "After fasting for days, he attacked his meal with voracity";
    - edacity, esurience, ravenousness, voraciousness
     
  2. Extreme gluttony
    "The voracity of the flames consumed the entire building";
    - edacity, esurience, rapaciousness, rapacity, voraciousness

Derived forms: voracities

Type of: gluttony, hunger, hungriness

Encyclopedia: Voracity