Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: voracity
IPA transcription: [vɔɹ'æsəti]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: edacity, esurience, rapaciousness, rapacity, voracity, voraciousness
    Meaning: extreme gluttony
  • Synonyms: edacity, esurience, ravenousness, voracity, voraciousness
    Meaning: excessive desire to eat
Usage examples
  • An insatiable voracity
  • But his voracity for anything printed was insatiable.
  • An eager interchange from bottom to surface goes on; for when the upper layer is satiated, it likes to enjoy its feeling of well-being in peace, until voracity once more makes them all rivals.
  • Now and then one of these personages would write something on a small slip of paper, and ring a bell, whereupon a familiar would appear, take the paper in profound silence, glide out of the room, and return shortly loaded with ponderous tomes, upon which the other would fall, tooth and nail, with famished voracity.