voracious
adjective
craving or consuming large quantities of food.
voraciousness
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a word derived from
voracious.
Example Sentences
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With Aster, for example, their bond emerged from a shared voraciousness for film.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2025
Elle is a deeply loving sweet person and there is a kind of kindness and understanding and an intellectual voraciousness to her that I felt that could play in Sylvie.
From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2024
Ovechkin went after the mark with some combination of viciousness and voraciousness.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 22, 2020
Compiled between 1020 and 1050, The Book of Curiosities exemplifies the intense intellectual voraciousness of scholars in Egypt during the era.
From Nature ● Dec. 12, 2019
Perfectly unreluctantly Rae Malgregor dropped the fluff of lace and ribbons into Zillah's lap and reached out with cheerful voraciousness to annex the young man's picture to her somewhat bleak possessions.
From The White Linen Nurse by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
