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esurience

esurience noun: the quality of being esurient; extreme gluttony or boundless hunger.

Noun

esurience (usually uncountable, plural esuriences)

  1. (usually) The quality of being esurient; extreme gluttony or boundless hunger.
    • To the man himself [Samuel Taylor Coleridge] Nature had given, in high measure, the seeds of a noble endowment; […] but imbedded in such weak laxity of character, in such indolences and esuriences as had made strange work with it.1851, Thomas Carlyle, “Coleridge”, in The Life of John Sterling, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, part I, page 78

Forms of esurience

pluralesuriences

Questions about esurience

What does esurience mean?
Esurience means the quality of being esurient; extreme gluttony or boundless hunger.
What part of speech is esurience?
Esurience is a noun.
What is the plural of esurience?
The plural of esurience is esuriences.

Words near esurience in the dictionary

  1. Estys
  2. Estée
  3. Estérel
  4. ESU
  5. esuprone
  6. esurience
  7. esuriences
  8. esuriency
  9. esurient
  10. esuriently
  11. esurients

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