noun
1. excessive desire to eat
• Syn: ↑edacity, ↑ravenousness, ↑voracity, ↑voraciousness
• Derivationally related forms: ↑voracious (for: ↑voraciousness), ↑voracious (for: ↑voracity), ↑ravenous (for: ↑ravenousness), ↑esurient, ↑edacious (for: ↑edacity)
• Hypernyms: ↑hunger, ↑hungriness
2. extreme gluttony
• Syn: ↑edacity, ↑rapaciousness, ↑rapacity, ↑voracity, ↑voraciousness
• Derivationally related forms: ↑voracious (for: ↑voraciousness), ↑voracious (for: ↑voracity), ↑rapacious (for: ↑rapacity), ↑rapacious (for: ↑rapaciousness), ↑esurient, ↑edacious (for: ↑edacity)
• Hypernyms: ↑gluttony
Useful english dictionary. 2012.