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

To satisfy its voracity for billions of pages, Anthropic started out by placing mass orders with wholesalers, before turning to individual and secondhand booksellers to help fill in the gaps.

— Francesca Mancino, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2026
The biblical voracity of these insects make them among the world’s most destructive pests.

— Gennaro Tomma, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2024

Definition of voracity

Noun

Sudan’s civil war, a conflict credibly described as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, has seen violence matched only by the belligerents’ rapacity in pillaging the country’s riches.

— Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2026
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

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