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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 eatplay

  Familiarity information: RAVENOUSNESS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


RAVENOUSNESS (noun)


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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