Esurience
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Esurience is a noun meaning The quality of being esurient; extreme gluttony or boundless hunger.
Meaning
The quality of being esurient; extreme gluttony or boundless hunger.
Example Sentences
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.
Word Forms
- esuriences
Synonyms for esurience
Depending on context, synonyms include rapacity, voracity, edacity, rapaciousness, voraciousness, ravenousness.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include voracity, voraciousness, rapaciousness, rapacity, edacity, ravenousness.
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