voracity
nounUK /vəˈɹæ.sɪ.ti/ · US /vəˈɹæ.sə.ti/
Etymology First attested in 1526 from Middle French voracité, from Latin vorācitās (whence -acity), from vorāx.
1
Usually The state of being voracious; rapacity or extreme gluttony.
- 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.1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IV, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 84:
- Derived terms
- carnivoracity, omnivoracity