Esurience

noun

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Noun
  1. 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. 2
    extreme gluttony wordnet
  3. 3
    excessive desire to eat wordnet

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edacityedacityesuriencyrapaciousnessrapacityravenousness

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"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."

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