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Definition of Ravenousness
1. Noun. Excessive desire to eat.
Generic synonyms: Hunger, Hungriness
Derivative terms: Edacious, Esurient, Ravenous, Ravenous, Voracious, Voracious
Definition of Ravenousness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ravenousness
Literary usage of Ravenousness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions by Richard Soule, George Holmes Howison (1891)
"Rapacity* «, I. ravenousness ... Greed, ravenousness, exercise of plunder,
woman (forcibly and against her -will}. 2. (Bot. ..."
2. A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions by Richard Soule (1891)
"I. ravenousness, rapaciousness, 2. Ravenous, greedy, plundering. voraciousness,
voracity, avidity, ... Greed, ravenousness, exercise of plunder. 2. (Bot. ..."
3. Discourses Upon the Existence and Attributes of God by Stephen Charnock (1853)
"... or that bird to his hawk to exercise his courage, and excite his ravenousness,
without being termed the author of that ravenousness in the creature. ..."
4. The complete works of Stephen Charnock by Stephen Charnock (1864)
"... and to present objects to that purpose, as a falconer hath to offer this or
that bird to his hawk, to exercise his courage and excite his ravenousness ..."
5. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1893)
"Such transient but insatiable ravenousness, however, is clearly a nervous
manifestation and no warranted craving of nature. Hence it is imperative at such ..."
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