VORACIOUSNESS Synonyms: 33 Similar and Opposite Words

voraciousness

noun

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Recent Examples of voraciousness That voraciousness informs her work, her choices, and her understanding of character. — Clayton Davis, Variety, 21 Nov. 2025 Its voraciousness has threatened native populations of minks, muskrats, and river otters. — Nathaniel Rich, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025

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Noun

The biblical voracity of these insects make them among the world’s most destructive pests.

— Gennaro Tomma, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2024
Obviously though, this voracity for Sonnys doesn’t happen in a vacuum.

— Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 8 July 2024

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This variation of socialism aimed to blunt the rapacity of capitalism rather than sharpen its contradictions and hasten the coming revolution.

— Idrees Kahloon, The Atlantic, 6 July 2026
The French—and, later, Anglo (Wilde, Beardsley, Rossetti)—attitude, mannered and morbid, was perhaps too Old World, at odds with our cheerful, Protestant rapacity.

— Olivia Kan-Sperling, Artforum, 2 May 2026

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