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RAVENOUSNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does ravenousness mean?
• RAVENOUSNESS (noun)
The noun RAVENOUSNESS has 1 sense:
1. excessive desire to eat
Familiarity information: RAVENOUSNESS used as a noun is very 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 ("ravenousness" is a kind of...):
hunger; hungriness (a physiological need for food; the consequence of food deprivation)
Derivation:
ravenous (devouring or craving food in great quantities)
ravenous (extremely hungry)
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