voracity
Extreme greedy appetite
Voracity is ravenous hunger or the quality of consuming eagerly and in great quantity.
The word applies literally to eating—The voracity of teenage boys at a buffet is legendary—but extends to any insatiable appetite: She read with a voracity that emptied library shelves.
The adjective is voracious.
Extremely hungry, insatiable
- insatiableImpossible to satisfy
- hungerNeed for nourishment
- famishedIntensely, painfully hungry
- starvingSuffering extreme hunger
craving · devouring · gobbling · wolfing · guzzling · gorging · feasting · gluttonous
Excessive desire for riches
- covetousnessExcessive desire for possessions
- acquisitivenessDesire to gather wealth
- rapacityAggressive, seizing greed
- graspingGreedy for wealth
hoarding · materialism · possessiveness · exploitation · profiteering · insatiable · mercenary · usury
ravenous
Extremely hungry, insatiable
- insatiableImpossible to satisfy
- hungerNeed for nourishment
- famishedIntensely, painfully hungry
starving · craving · devouring · gobbling · wolfing · guzzling · gorging · feasting · gluttonous · bingeing
avarice
Excessive desire for riches
- covetousnessExcessive desire for possessions
- acquisitivenessDesire to gather wealth
- rapacityAggressive, seizing greed
grasping · hoarding · materialism · possessiveness · exploitation · profiteering · insatiable · mercenary · usury · extortion
avidity
Intense keen interest
- zealIntense driving devotion
- fervorIntense emotional intensity
- enthusiasmIntense eager enjoyment
ardor · passion · gusto · keenness · intensity · relentless · tireless · consuming · obsessive · compulsive
predatory
Exploiting the vulnerable
- prowlingMoving stealthily while hunting
- raveningIntensely hungry, predatory
- wolfishResembling a wild canine
hunting · stalking · ferocious · savage · rapacious · preying · devouring · pouncing · ruthless · merciless
- desireswant, wish, desire, wanting, yearning
- greedgreed, avarice, covetousness, cupidity, materialism
- carnivoresmeat-eating, apex predator, wolf, tiger, hypercarnivore
- excessexcess, too much, excessive, excessiveness, overabundance
- indulgenceindulgence, indulge, indulgent, self-indulgent, overindulgence
voracityabstinence
Voluntary forgoing of indulgences
temperance · moderation · self-restraint · frugality · asceticism
voracitygenerosity
Readiness to give freely
contentment · satisfaction · liberality · magnanimity · unselfishness
- voracious readerOne who consumes books insatiably