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voracity

UK/vəˈɹæ.sɪ.ti/US/vəˈɹæ.sə.ti/
nounC2Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechneutral

Voracity is a greedy and unappeasable appetite. The voracity of a growing boy.

It is used of reading and of curiosity as readily as of food. Voracity shares its root with carnivore and omnivore, all from the Latin for devour.

Definitions of voracity

  1. 1nounvoracityA greedy and unappeasable appetite.C2

    “His voracity for detective novels emptied the library.”

voracity is an appetite.

Where it comes from

Latin voracitas, from vorax, greedy, from vorare, to devour.

  1. Latin

    vorācitās

  2. Middle French

    voracité

  3. English, today

    voracity

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

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

voracity in the wild

  • Unfortunately, many have likely been purchased when young, by uninformed shoppers, and later released by these same individuals when their true size and voracity became evident.

    Redtail catfish

  • Second, because there appeared, without pre-concepts or complexes, original and fruitful abstraction, and, thirdly, because the artists escaped from the centralized voracity of the capital.

    Independentes

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.