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Hungriness   Listen
noun
hungriness  n.  
1.
The state of being hungry; a need for food.
Synonyms: hunger.
2.
An intense desire.





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"Hungriness" Quotes from Famous Books



... aloud for the third time to my mother. It had been our favorite book, and I took anxious pains to show her how I loved it still. But once chancing to look quickly up, I caught my mother watching me with a hungriness and an utter despair such as I'd never seen before. It struck me cold, I looked away—and suddenly I realized what a selfish little beast I was, beside this woman who loved me so and whom I was now leaving. My throat contracted sharply. But when I looked back the look was gone, and ...
— The Harbor • Ernest Poole


Words linked to "Hungriness" :   wishfulness, hankering, undernourishment, desire, esurience, discontent, hungry, nostalgia, famishment, voraciousness, voracity, yen, malnourishment, drive, pining, starvation, edacity, thirst, emptiness, yearning, ravenousness, thirstiness, bulimia, longing, discontentedness


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