voracity

English

Etymology

First attested in 1526 from Middle French voracité, from Latin vorācitās (whence -acity), from vorāx.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /vəˈɹæ.sɪ.ti/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /vəˈɹæ.sə.ti/, /vɔˈɹæ.sə.ti/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -æsɪti
• Homophone: veracity
• Hyphenation: vo‧ra‧ci‧ty

Noun

voracity (usually uncountable, plural voracities)

1. The state of being voracious; rapacity or extreme gluttony.

   Synonym: voraciousness

   • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IV, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 84:

     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.

Derived terms

• carnivoracity
• omnivoracity

Translations

the state of being voracious

• Bulgarian: лакоми́я (bg) f (lakomíja), ненаси́тност (bg) f (nenasítnost)
• Catalan: voracitat f
• French: voracité (fr) f
• Galician: voracidade (gl) f
• Georgian: გაუმაძღრობა (gaumaʒɣroba)
• Irish: airc f, ampla m, gionach f
• Italian: voracità (it) f
• Kazakh: ашкөздік (ašközdik)
• Latin: avāritia f
• Macedonian: стрв f (strv)
• Polish: żarłoczność (pl) f, zachłanność (pl) f
• Portuguese: voracidade f
• Russian: ненасы́тность (ru) f (nenasýtnostʹ), прожо́рливость (ru) f (prožórlivostʹ)
• Spanish: voracidad (es) f
• Tagalog: sibà