voraciousness

Other forms of voraciousness

plural

voraciousnesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about voraciousness

What does voraciousness mean?

voraciousness means "excessive desire to eat". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in voraciousness?

voraciousness has 5 syllables: vo-ra-ci-ou-sness. The stress falls on "ci".

What is another word for voraciousness?

Close synonyms include edacity, esurience, ravenousness, voracity, edacity. 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 voraciousness a common word?

voraciousness 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.