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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
The quality of being esurient; extreme gluttony or boundless hunger..
To the man himself [Samuel Taylor Coleridge] Nature had given, in high measure, the seeds of a noble endowment; […] but imbedded in such weak laxity of character, in such indolences and esuriences as had made strange work with it.
Use esurience when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Esurience means The quality of being esurient; extreme gluttony or boundless hunger..
Common synonyms include rapacity, voracity, edacity, rapaciousness.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
To the man himself [Samuel Taylor Coleridge] Nature had given, in high measure, the seeds of a noble endowment; […] but imbedded in such weak laxity of character, in such indolences and esuriences as had made strange work with it.
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