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
If you live in deer territory and have tried to grow almost any kind of plant, you’re familiar with deer’s voraciousness.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 23, 2021
But the staffers describe a situation where the accusations were, because of the voraciousness of Carnahan's response, generally accepted as true among party insiders.
From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2021
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
The erstwhile New York "shark" was now an eel, wily and elusive, but he was an eel with a shark's teeth and a shark's voraciousness.
From Jane Cable by George Barr McCutcheon
