hungers
Yearns for more
Hungers is the plural of hunger or the third-person singular verb.
As a noun, hungers names multiple instances of craving or need—not just for food but for anything intensely desired: the hungers of the body, spiritual hungers.
As a verb: She hungers for recognition.
The plural noun is uncommon; hunger typically appears as a mass noun.
Extreme nutritional deprivation
- malnutritionDisease from dietary inadequacy
- undernourishmentInsufficient dietary intake
- famineSevere food shortage
- scarcityInsufficiency of something needed
shortage · want · lack · dearth · paucity · insufficiency · privation · neediness
Intense, persistent desire
- desireIntense wanting
- yearningIntense prolonged craving
- piningAching with prolonged desire
- achePersistent dull discomfort
hankering · itch · thirst · urge · compulsion · obsession · fixation · coveting
Powerful urge to have
- ravenousnessIntense, consuming hunger
- peckishnessMild desire for food
- satietyState of being full
- nourishmentFood that sustains life
meal · snack · feast · banquet · breakfast · lunch · dinner · supper
Intense wanting
- passionIntense emotional drive
- carnalityPursuit of bodily pleasures
- sensualityPursuit of physical pleasure
- eroticismSexual desire's aesthetic quality
libido · ardor · concupiscence · lechery · temptation · seduction · amorousness · longing
starvation
Extreme nutritional deprivation
- malnutritionDisease from dietary inadequacy
- undernourishmentInsufficient dietary intake
- famineSevere food shortage
scarcity · shortage · want · lack · dearth · paucity · insufficiency · privation · neediness · poverty
longing
Intense, persistent desire
ache · hankering · itch · thirst · urge · compulsion · obsession · fixation · coveting · eagerness
craving
Powerful urge to have
- ravenousnessIntense, consuming hunger
- peckishnessMild desire for food
- satietyState of being full
nourishment · meal · snack · feast · banquet · breakfast · lunch · dinner · supper · fullness
desire
Intense wanting
- passionIntense emotional drive
- carnalityPursuit of bodily pleasures
- sensualityPursuit of physical pleasure
eroticism · libido · ardor · concupiscence · lechery · temptation · seduction · amorousness · longing · covetousness
hungersaversions
Strong feelings against
satisfactions · contentments · repulsions · revulsions · loathings
hungersapathies
Lacks of concern
indifferences · disinterests · unconcern · detachment · nonchalance
- emotional hungerCraving for connection
- hunger strikeProtest through refusing food
- world hungerInsufficient food worldwide
- hunger pangsPainful emptiness craving food
- hunger painsStomach discomfort from emptiness
- The Hunger GamesDystopian survival competition series