voracity

[ vaw-ras-i-tee, voh-, vuh- ]

noun

1. the condition or quality of being voracious.

Word History and Origins

Origin of voracity¹

1520–30; < Latin vorācitās, equivalent to vorāc- (stem of vorāx ) gluttonous + -itās -ity

Example Sentences

It took me a decade to catch up with his 1964 memoir, which is titled after a racial epithet and swims with intellectual voracity and banked anger.

From New York Times

A magician who later challenged spoon benders, mind readers and faith healers with such voracity that he became regarded as the country’s foremost skeptic.

From Seattle Times

I am not a writer of John Lennon’s notoriety, and I am not possessed of his voracity for sensationalism.

From Washington Post

He felt the tingling in his hands, the lightness in his head, the heaviness of his heart, and it consumed him, filled him to the brim with a bitterness and voracity that burned his throat.

From Literature

Kuchukhidze emphasized the importance for those trying to penetrate high wealth and political echelons of Ukraine to “demonstrate” their closeness and give voracity to claims that they could “solve big political and business issues.”

From Fox News