RAVENOUSNESS Synonyms: 33 Similar and Opposite Words

ravenousness

noun

Definition of ravenousness

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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

Definition of rapacity

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

Wells' family and their lawyers disputed the grand jury's findings, pointing to unexplained bruising on the back of his head and noting that his airways and stomach were devoid of water.

— ABC News, ABC News, 6 Oct. 2026
Keith died in February 2024 following a battle with stomach cancer.

— Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of stomach

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Creating brand hunger while ensuring brands remain the pinnacle of creative prestige is no small feat.

— Joe Bobowicz, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2026
Human traffickers are turning children’s hunger, desperation and need for affection into tools of exploitation, a Colorado city police sergeant warned after his dedicated unit’s first year brought dozens of survivors to safety.

— Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of hunger

Noun

Globally, 43 million children under five suffer acute malnutrition.

— Jeannie Annan, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026
Normally, the malnutrition and diarrhea that weakened his tiny frame would have been treated within a few days, but nothing is normal in Yemen anymore.

— Fatma Khaled, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of malnutrition

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However, sometime within the past three years, an unknown person apparently hacked the mission’s voicemail, rerecording the greeting message as a satirical monologue about mass starvation and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

— Max Saltman, CNN Money, 6 Oct. 2026
Those being deported today weren’t captured and sold into bondage; many left home to escape civil war, gang violence or starvation.

— Karen Masterson, The Conversation, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of starvation

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