power hunger

1. 1.

   a drive to acquire power

   Synonymsstatus seeking

   Broaderambition

Questions about power hunger

What does power hunger mean?

power hunger means "a drive to acquire power".

What is another word for power hunger?

Close synonyms include status seeking. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is power hunger a common word?

power hunger is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.