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ESURIENCE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does esurience mean?
• ESURIENCE (noun)
The noun ESURIENCE has 2 senses:
1. excessive desire to eat
2. extreme gluttony
Familiarity information: ESURIENCE used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Excessive desire to eat
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
edacity; esurience; ravenousness; voraciousness; voracity
Hypernyms ("esurience" is a kind of...):
hunger; hungriness (a physiological need for food; the consequence of food deprivation)
Derivation:
esurient (extremely hungry)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Extreme gluttony
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
edacity; esurience; rapaciousness; rapacity; voraciousness; voracity
Hypernyms ("esurience" is a kind of...):
gluttony (habitual eating to excess)
Derivation:
esurient (devouring or craving food in great quantities)
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