voracity

Other forms of voracity

plural

voracities·

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 voracity

What does voracity mean?

voracity means "excessive desire to eat". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in voracity?

voracity has 4 syllables: vo-rac-i-ty. The stress falls on "rac". In IPA it is /vɚˈæsəti/.

What is another word for voracity?

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

voracity 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.