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

Place your fresh pakoras onto a paper towel-lined platter and watch as you, or anyone near you, scarfs them down with the same voracity with which one would demolish a carton of McDonald's french fries.

From Salon

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

The voracity with which Kelley digs into her students' issues makes her come off as a kind of cult leader, an exploiter of trauma and intense displays of emotion for at best self-promotion and at worst sadistic pleasure.

From Salon

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 Washington 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