edacity

Edacity is the state of being edacious. Something or someone that is edacious is devouring or voracious.

When someone is showing edacity, they are craving or consuming large amounts of something. Most often, edacity is used in reference to food. For example, you might be in a state of edacity if you’ve been fasting all day. You’ll be more than hungry—you’ll be so strongly craving food that you might be eating as much as you can, as quickly as you can.

Less often, edacity is used in relation to other things you might want or consume in large amounts, such as reading or listening to music.

Example: We were all filled with edacity after that 10-mile hike with no snacks.

The first records of the term edacity come from around the 1620s. It ultimately comes from the Latin edāx, meaning “gluttonous.”

Edacity can be used to describe humans, animals, or if used figuratively, any force that consumes something. A fire, for example, is sometimes described as “consuming” the things it burns. You might say, then, that a wildfire was filled with edacity, consuming everything in its path.

What are some other forms related to edacity?

• edacious (adjective)
• edaciously (adverb)

What are some synonyms for edacity?

• hunger
• ravenousness
• voracity
• rapacity
• gluttonousness

What are some words that share a root or word element with edacity? 

• edacious

What are some words that often get used in discussing edacity?

• appetite
• consume
• desire

What are some words edacity may be commonly confused with?

• audacity

Edacity is not often used. When it is, it’s most often used in relation to food and hunger.

A good appetite or capacity for eating can be known as an 'edacity'.

— The OED (@OED) July 4, 2013

Unfortunately, I'm working up a late night edacity… 😔

— Austin (@Austin_W_Wilson) July 9, 2013

No disgrace in moist eyes. The drought of our hearts seek rain of compassion.
We need grace and generosity of the skies.
We need mercy and humility of the earth.
When audacious edacity reigns,
Nature and mortals need salvation.

— Gladwin Emmanuel (@OV_apukili) November 8, 2019

Which of the following is NOT a synonym for edacity?

A. gluttonousness
B. voracity
C. satiated
D. ravenousness