voraciousness
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7.9
- noun
- /vəˈreɪʃəsnəs/
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voracidad
- The voraciousness of the effort by deniers to undermine, through conspiracy-mongering, the credibility of evidence for anthropogenic change indicates to me the strength of that evidence and the desperation at the exhaustion of skeptical lines of argument.
Examples
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Toward morning, I held her, already so thin from the voraciousness of her illness.
Fiction book (1990) -
His temperament had nothing to do with his mind... or if it did, his temperament didn't enter into his books at all, except in a certain voraciousness of scholarly method...
Academic text (2011) -
Euglandina eats other snails with utmost efficiency and voraciousness.
Academic text (1991) -
Discounting the spiritual nature of humanity is an awfully narrow-minded view. "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." What troubles me is not that it is being excluded; what troubles me is the voraciousness of the attack against it.
Blog text (4) -
Further odious attributes endemic to war, such as rapaciousness, voraciousness, and injustice, are also assigned to the wolf in the scientific and art-theoretical literature of the time.
Academic text (1996) -
Years later, reviewing the chronicle of those days, Dr. Juvenal Urbino confirmed that his father's methodology had been more charitable than scientific and, in many ways, contrary to reason, so that in large measure it had fostered the voraciousness of the plague.
Blog text (17) -
The child's voraciousness for books led her to read several novels every week.
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His voraciousness for travel takes him to a new country every month.
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The cat's voraciousness at mealtime often surprises its owner with how much it can eat.
Synonyms
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9.9
A very strong desire to have more money and things
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6.8
Giving yourself too much pleasure or comfort
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8.4
A very strong hunger or want for something you cannot get enough of
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4.0
Wanting too much money or things and not being satisfied
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8.4
Always wanting more and never having enough
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9.9
A very strong wish to have more money or things than you need
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9.9
A very strong desire to take more than is fair
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7.8
A habit of eating too much in a greedy way
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5.5
A strong desire to act that is too much and causes problems
A very strong wish for more that cannot be satisfied
A very strong desire to have a lot of money and things
A strong desire to have more than your fair share of things
Very strong hunger that makes you want to eat a lot
A very strong hunger that makes you eat a lot
A very strong desire to eat too much
A very strong wish to eat and drink a lot
A very greedy way of eating a lot of food
A strong desire to get or achieve something
A strong desire for things like knowledge or success
A very strong desire to control other people
Antonyms
How Hungry
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Voraciousness comes from the Latin root vorare, which means 'to devour'. Think of someone who 'devours' food, books, or work and never feels full, because voraciousness is a very strong appetite or desire.