voracity

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   extreme gluttony

   Your voracity is incredible.

2. 2
   noun

   excessive desire, especially to eat

   Your voracity for work cannot be fulfilled.

3. 3
   noun

   The state of being voracious; rapacity or extreme gluttony.

   Beatrice felt heart-sick to see the famished voracity with which her father ate—it was the first time he had tasted food for three days.

Etymology

From vorac(ious) + -ity, from Middle French voracité, from Latin voracitas. First use appears c. 1526.