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Definition of Hungriness

1. Noun. A physiological need for food; the consequence of food deprivation.

2. Noun. Prolonged unfulfilled desire or need.

3. Noun. Strong desire for something (not food or drink). "Hunger for affection"

Definition of Hungriness

1. Noun. The characteristic of being hungry; hunger. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hungriness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hungriness

hunger strike hunger strikes hungered hungerer hungerers hungering hungeringly hungerless hungerly hungers

hungover hungred hungrier hungriest hungrily hungriness (current term) hungrinesses hungry hungry(p) hungry as a hog

hungry ghost hungry ghosts hunh hunk of junk hunker hunker down hunkered hunkered down hunkering

Literary usage of Hungriness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Founding of a Nation: The Story of the Pilgrim Fathers, Their Voyage on by Frank Moody Gregg (1915)
"Such hungriness this new or the old country rarely saw, as that which ... Following the tide of this onward current of hungriness, I came in last and was ..."

2. The founding of a nation: the story of the Pilgrim fathers, their voyage on by Frank Moody Gregg (1915)
"Such hungriness this new or the old country rarely saw, as that which ... Following the tide of this onward current of hungriness, I came in last and was ..."

3. Nervous and mental disease monograph series (1918)
""The peculiar dull ache of hungriness, referred to the epigastrium, is usually the organism's first strong demand for food" which if not heeded may " grow ..."

4. The Autonomic Functions and the Personality by Edward John Kempf (1921)
"The peculiar dull ache of hungriness, referred to the epigastrium, is usually the organism's first strong demand for food" which if not heeded may "grow ..."

5. The American Journal of Psychology by Edward Bradford ( Titchener, Granville Stanley Hall (1902)
"... which will require the fish to push on under penalty of being belated and leaving no progeny to transmit their hungriness and tardiness at the finish. ..."

6. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"There are few aces that have light, upon which in their lours of repose may not be found an ex- ¡ression as of hungriness, waxing fainter or more powerful ..."

7. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"... fever, calenture (literary), device (oiw. or rare, exc. in "left to one's own de- rices"), letch (rare), hunger, hungriness, hanker, gluttony (fig. ..."

8. Bodily Changes in Pain, Hunger, Fear and Rage: An Account of Recent by Walter Bradford Cannon (1920)
"The peculiar dull ache of hungriness, referred to the epigastrium, is usually the organism's first strong demand for food; and when the initial order is not ..."

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