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Antonyms for voracity

Grammar : Noun
Spell : vaw-ras-i-tee, voh-, vuh-
Phonetic Transcription : vɔˈræs ɪ ti, voʊ-, və-

Definition of voracity

Origin :
  • 1520s, from Middle French voracité (14c.) or directly from Latin voracitatem (nominative voracitas) "greediness, ravenousness," from vorax (genitive voracis) "greedy," from vorare "to devour," from PIE root *gwer- "to swallow, devour" (cf. Sanskrit girati "he swallows," garah "drink;" Greek bora "food;" Lithuanian geriu "to drink;" Old Church Slavonic ziro "to swallow," grulo "gullet").
  • noun ravenousness
Example sentences :
  • This voracity must be peculiar to the inhabitants of cold countries, said Altamont.
  • Extract from : « The Field of Ice » by Jules Verne
  • These she produced likewise; and he ate and drank with the voracity of a famished hound.
  • Extract from : « Barnaby Rudge » by Charles Dickens
  • A candle of yellow wax illuminated this scene of voracity and revery.
  • Extract from : « Notre-Dame de Paris » by Victor Hugo
  • He preys only on the smallest quadrupeds, and with all his voracity he is an arrant poltroon.
  • Extract from : « The Bush Boys » by Captain Mayne Reid
  • Indeed, our means of taking them were as simple as their voracity was great.
  • Extract from : « The Little Savage » by Captain Frederick Marryat
  • With some of them this voracity went so far that we had to chain them.
  • Extract from : « The South Pole, Volumes 1 and 2 » by Roald Amundsen
  • Their ferocity, as well as their voracity, surpasses anything that can be imagined.
  • Extract from : « Curiosities of Civilization » by Andrew Wynter
  • Its boldness and voracity, and craving for blood, are more remarkable than its size.
  • Extract from : « The Ocean World: » by Louis Figuier
  • Numerous accounts have been given of the voracity of the pike.
  • Extract from : « Dog Breaking » by William Nelson Hutchinson
  • Their voracity is useful for the preservation of the social organism.
  • Extract from : « Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, January 1900 » by Various

Synonyms for voracity

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