voracity

English

Etymology

From vorac(ious) +‎ -ity, from Middle French voracité, from Latin voracitas. First use appears c. 1526.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vəˈɹæsɪti/

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Noun

voracity (usually uncountable, plural voracities)

1. The state of being voracious; rapacity or extreme gluttony.

   Synonym: voraciousness

   • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IV, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 84:

     Beatrice felt heart-sick to see the famished voracity with which her father ate—it was the first time he had tasted food for three days.

Translations

the state of being voracious

Bulgarian: лакоми́я (bg) f (lakomíja), ненаси́тност (bg) f (nenasítnost) Catalan: voracitat f French: voracité (fr) f Galician: voracidade (gl) f Georgian: გაუმაძღრობა (gaumaʒɣroba) Irish: airc f, ampla m, gionach f Italian: voracità (it) f Kazakh: ашкөздік (aşközdık) Latin: avāritia f Macedonian: стрв f (strv) Portuguese: voracidade f Russian: ненасы́тность (ru) f (nenasýtnostʹ), прожо́рливость (ru) f (prožórlivostʹ) Spanish: voracidad (es) f Tagalog: sibà