ENGLISH DICTIONARY

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

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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