Esurience
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The quality of being esurient; extreme gluttony or boundless hunger. uncountable, usually
"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."
- 2 extreme gluttony wordnet
- 3 excessive desire to eat wordnet
Example
More examples"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."