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edacity
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun edacity has 2 senses
- edacity(n = noun.state) esurience, ravenousness, voraciousness, voracity - excessive desire to eat; Array is a kind of hunger, hungriness
- edacity(n = noun.attribute) esurience, rapaciousness, rapacity, voraciousness, voracity - extreme gluttony; Array is a kind of gluttony
Derived form adjective edacious1
Derived form adjective edacious1
CIDE DICTIONARY
edacity, n. [L. edacitas.].
Greediness; voracity; ravenousness; rapacity. Bacon. [1913 Webster]
ROGET THESAURUS
edacity
Gluttony
N gluttony, greed, avarice, greediness, voracity, epicurism, good living, high living, edacity, gulosity, crapulence, guttling, guzzling, pantophagy, good cheer, blow out, feast, gastronomy, batterie de cuisine, epicure, bon vivant, gourmand, glutton, cormorant, hog, belly god, Apicius, gastronome, gourmet, v, gormandize, gorge, overgorge, overeat oneself, engorge, eat one's fill, cram, stuff, guttle, guzzle, bolt, devour, gobble up, gulp, raven, eat out of house and home, have the stomach of an ostrich, play a good knife and fork, pamper, gluttonous, greedy, gormandizing, edacious, omnivorous, crapulent, swinish, avaricious, selfish, pampered, overfed, overgorged, jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit.
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