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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



... 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

... 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

... a matter-of-fact hungriness, she trotted beside him to a restaurant, one of the string of Vance eating-places, a food-mill which tried to achieve originality by the use of imitation rafters, a plate-rack aligned with landscape plates, and varnished black tables for four instead of the long, marble ...
— The Job - An American Novel • Sinclair Lewis

... dulled to a matter-of-fact hungriness, she trotted beside him to a restaurant, one of the string of Vance eating-places, a food-mill which tried to achieve originality by the use of imitation rafters, a plate-rack aligned with landscape plates, and varnished black tables for ...
— The Job - An American Novel • Sinclair Lewis



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