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Hungriness

noun
1.
A physiological need for food; the consequence of food deprivation.  Synonym: hunger.
2.
Prolonged unfulfilled desire or need.  Synonyms: longing, yearning.
3.
Strong desire for something (not food or drink).  Synonyms: hunger, thirst, thirstiness.  "Hunger for affection"






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"Hungriness" Quotes from Famous Books



... them and cook nice things for them," she confided, "but I like to be down here when the children come in to ask for medicine, and when the mothers come to find out what they shall feed the convalescents. Richard, I never heard anything like their—hungriness—when they are getting well." ...
— Mistress Anne • Temple Bailey



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